Verse 16
Hebrews 12:16
World English Bible, British Edition
16
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau,
who sold his birthright for one meal.
Original Language Text
greek
μή τις πόρνος ἢ βέβηλος ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὃς ἀντὶ βρώσεως μιᾶς ἀπέδετο τὰ πρωτοτόκια ⸀ἑαυτοῦ.
English Translation
Let no one be a fornicator or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his own birthright.
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Chapter 12 Context
1
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
lay aside every wei...
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looking to Yashua (Jesus), the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy
that was set before hi...
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3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, that you don’t grow...
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4
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
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5
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
“My son, don’t take ligh...
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for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
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7
It is for discipline that you endure. God (Elohim) deals with you as with
children, for what son is...
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8
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers,
then you are illegitimate,...
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9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid
them respect. Shall we not m...
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10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them,
but he for our profit, that we...
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11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous;
yet afterward it yields the peac...
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12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
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13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather
be healed.
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14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without
which no man will see the Lord,
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15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace
of God (Elohim), lest any root...
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16
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau,
who sold his birthright for...
17
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing,
he was rejected, for he fo...
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18
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and
that burnt with fire, and to blackness...
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19
the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard
it begged that not one more wo...
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20
for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal
touches the mountain, it shall...
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21
So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and
trembling.”
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22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living
God (Elohim), the heavenly Jerusalem,...
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23
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled
in heaven, to God (Elohim) th...
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24
to Yashua (Jesus), the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks
better...
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25
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t
escape when they refused him who warned...
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26
whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying,
“Yet once more I will shake not o...
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27
This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things
that are shaken, as of things th...
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Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace,
through which we serve God (E...
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for our God (Elohim) is a consuming fire.
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