Hebrews 12:17

For 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.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

In Context

16Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

18For you are not come to a palpable and enkindled fire,

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23"Then I will tell them plainly, "‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of iniquity.’

Luke 13:24"Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

Hebrews 6:8but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

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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