Hebrews 12:16
Hebrews chapter 12 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
Context
v.15looking carefully lestthere beany man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
v.16This passage
v.17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ephesians 5:5
For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
- Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
- 1 Corinthians 6:15
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
- Acts 15:20
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
- 1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.