Hebrews 12:17

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

Young's Literal Translation

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

16lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

18For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

Matthew 7:23and then I will acknowledge to them, that — I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

Luke 13:24'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

Hebrews 6:8and that which is bearing thorns and briers [is] disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end [is] for burning;

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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