Hebrews 12:16

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

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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

15Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you , and by it many be defiled;

17For ye know 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.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:31And Jacob said, Sell to me this day thy birth-right.

Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Acts 15:29That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from lewdness: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Fare ye well.

1 Corinthians 5:9I have written to you in this epistle, not to associate with persons guilty of lewdness:

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these , Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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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