Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright.

New American Standard Bible

that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal.

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.

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

be any
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

πόρνος 
Pornos 
Usage: 9

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

βέβηλος 
Bebelos 
Usage: 5

as
ὡς 
Hos 
as, when, how, as it were, about,
Usage: 417

Ἠσαῦ 
Esau 
Usage: 3

who
ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

for
ἀντί 
Anti 
for, because 9, for ... cause, therefore 9, in the room of
Usage: 14

one
εἷς 
heis 
one, a, other, some, not tr,
Usage: 188

βρῶσις 
Brosis 
Usage: 5

ἀποδίδωμι 
Apodidomi 
Usage: 25

his

Usage: 0

References

Context Readings

A Serious Warning Against Refusing God

15 And look to, that no man be destitute of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness spring up and trouble; and thereby many be defiled: 16 and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright. 17 Ye know how that afterward when that he would have inherited the blessing, he was put by, and he found no means to come thereby again: no, though he desired it with tears.

Cross References

Hebrews 13:4

Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

Genesis 25:31-34

And Jacob said, "Sell me this day thy birthright."

Genesis 27:36

Then said he, "He may well be called Jacob, for he hath undermined me now two times - first he took away my birthright; and see, now hath he taken away my blessing also." And he said, "Hast thou kept never a blessing for me?"

Mark 7:21

For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder,

Acts 15:20

but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that is to say: that ye abstain from things offered to images, from blood, from strangled and fornication. From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. So fare ye well."

1 Corinthians 5:1-6

There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote unto you in an epistle that ye should not company with fornicators.

1 Corinthians 6:15-20

Either, remember ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I now take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

1 Corinthians 10:8

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

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear lest when I come again, God bring me low among you, and I be constrained to bewail many of them which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness which they have committed.

Galatians 5:19-21

The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

Ephesians 5:3

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

Ephesians 5:5

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, either unclean person, or covetous person, which is the worshipper of images, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

Revelation 2:20-23

Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, that thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which called herself a prophetess to teach and to deceive my servants, to make them commit fornication, and to eat meats offered up 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 shall be dogs and enchanters, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth or maketh lies.

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