Parallel Verses
King James Version
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
New American Standard Bible
that there be no
Holman Bible
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent
International Standard Version
No one should be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
A Conservative Version
lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.
American Standard Version
lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
Amplified
and [see to it] that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
An Understandable Version
and that no one becomes immoral or ungodly, like Esau, who sold his right to the firstborn son's inheritance for a single meal.
Anderson New Testament
lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.
Bible in Basic English
And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.
Common New Testament
that no one be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess."
Darby Translation
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;
Godbey New Testament
lest any one may be a fornicator, or a profane person, as was Esau, who for one morsel sold his birthright.
John Wesley New Testament
as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright:
Julia Smith Translation
Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture.
King James 2000
Lest there be any immoral, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.
Modern King James verseion
(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright.
Moffatt New Testament
that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did ??Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.
Montgomery New Testament
Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.
NET Bible
And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
New Heart English Bible
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.
Noyes New Testament
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person as Esau, who for one meal sold even his birthright.
Sawyer New Testament
that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.
The Emphasized Bible
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, like Esau, - who, for the sake of one meal, yielded up his own firstborn rights;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
Webster
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.
Weymouth New Testament
lest there be a fornicator, or an ungodly person like Esau, who, in return for a single meal, parted with the birthright which belonged to him.
Williams New Testament
some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
World English Bible
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Worrell New Testament
lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right.
Worsley New Testament
least there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one repast gave away his birthright.
Youngs 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,
Themes
Children » Good Children » Good Parents » Birthright of
Esau » Sells his birthright for a single meal
Esau » The man who lost his inheritance, facts concerning » Sought to repent when too late
Firstborn » Birthright of the » Sold by esau
Gluttony » Instances of » Esau
Heedfulness » Necessary » Against sin
jacob » Obtains esau's birthright for just one bowl of stew
Repentance » Unavailing » To esau
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Word Count of 36 Translations in Hebrews 12:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Serious Warning Against Refusing God
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.
Cross References
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 25:31-34
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
Genesis 27:36
And 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?
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29
That 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 5:1-6
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.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians 6:15-20
Know 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.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 5:3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians 5:5
For 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.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Revelation 2:20-23
Notwithstanding 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.
Revelation 21:8
But 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.
Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.