Hebrews 12:17

For 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.

Revised King James 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

16That there be no sexually immoral, or godless person, like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

18For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, that burns with fire, and to darkness, and gloom, and tempest,

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23And then I will declare to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you who work iniquity.

Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Hebrews 6:8But that which bears thorns and thistles is worthless, and is near to being cursed; its end is 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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