Hebrews 12:16

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“See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.”

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“See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
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“lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hebrews 12:16 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 25:31“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
  2. Genesis 27:36So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
  3. Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
  4. Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
  5. Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
  6. 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
  7. 1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
  8. 1 Corinthians 6:15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
  9. 1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
  10. 2 Corinthians 12:21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
  11. Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
  12. Ephesians 5:3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
  13. Ephesians 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
  14. Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
  15. 1 Thessalonians 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
  16. Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  17. Revelation 2:20But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  18. Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
  19. Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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