Hebrews 12:16

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

In Context

15Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; he found no room for repentance, though he sought it earnestly, with tears.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes -

Acts 15:29"that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

1 Corinthians 5:9I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.

1 Corinthians 10:8Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:5-18

The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father… Read the whole commentary →

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