Hebrews 12:16

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Summary

Hebrews 12:16

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Any fornicator

As esau

Genesis 25:31

Genesis 27:36

General references

Deuteronomy 21:16

Bible References

Any fornicator

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

It 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.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn over many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have committed.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness,

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.

As esau

And Jacob said, Sell me this day your birthright.

And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

General references

Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn: