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Hebrews 12:16 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 12 · verse 16 · King James Version
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.Hebrews 12:16 · King James Version
Hebrews 12:16 in context
14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17For 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.
18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Cross references
Key words (Strong's)
- fornicatorpornosa man who prostitutes his body to another's lust for hire, a male prostitute, a man who…G4205 →
- personbebēlosaccessible, lawful to be trodden, of places, profane, unhallowed, common, public place…G952 →
- Lestmēno, not lestG3361 →
- EsauēsauEsau = " hairy" , was the eldest son of Isaac and twin brother of JacobG2269 →
- meatbrōsisact of eating, in a wider sense, corrosion, that which is eaten, food, aliment, of the…G1035 →
- soldapodidōmito deliver, to give away for one s own profit what is one s own, to sell, to pay off…G591 →
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