Hebrews 12:16

That there be no sexually immoral, or godless person, like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

Revised King James 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

15See to it that no man fails to obtain the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up should trouble you, and thereby defile many;

17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Acts 15:29That you abstain from foods offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you shall do well. Farewell.

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in a letter not to keep company with the sexually immoral:

1 Corinthians 10:8Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are obvious; they are; sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

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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