KJV King James Version
Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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Hebrews 12:16
Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
WEB World English Bible
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
ASV American Standard Version
lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,
Surrounding context — Hebrews 12
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 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.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
μήG3361 · mēnotτιςG5100 · tisoneπόρνοςG4205 · pornossexual sinnerἢG2228 · ēorβέβηλοςG952 · bebēlosprofaneὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenἨσαῦ,G2269 · ĒsauEsauὃςG3739 · hos, hēwhichἀντὶG473 · antiforβρώσεωςG1035 · brōsiseatingμιᾶςG1520 · ehisoneἀπέδετοG591 · apodidōmito payτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoπρωτοτόκιαG4415 · prōtotokiabirthrightἑαυτοῦ.G1438 · heautouthemself
Cross-references
Genesis 25:31-34And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.1 Corinthians 6:15-20Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.Revelation 22:15For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.Hebrews 13:4Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,1 Thessalonians 4:3-7For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.1 Corinthians 5:1-6It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.1 Corinthians 5:9-11I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.Revelation 2:20-23Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.Ephesians 5:5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.Genesis 27:36And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:2 Corinthians 12:21[And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.Galatians 5:19-21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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