Hebrews 12:16

least there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one repast gave away his birthright.

1770 John Worsley NT

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 to it, least there be any one falling short of the grace of God, least any root of bitterness springing up should be troublesome, and by it many be defiled:

17For ye know that, when he would afterwards have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no room for repentance, though he sought it earnestly even with tears.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21for out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts,

Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from fornication: from which ye will do well to keep yourselves. Farewel.

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers:

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

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, such as, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

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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