Verse 16
Hebrews 12:16
Young's Literal Translation
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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,
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
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Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off,...
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looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Yashua (Jesus), who, over-against the joy set before...
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for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be w...
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Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;
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and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not d...
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for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'
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if chastening ye endure, as to sons God (Elohim) beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a fat...
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and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and n...
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Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; sha...
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for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for...
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and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward...
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Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;
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and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather b...
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peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
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looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God (Elohim), lest any root of bitte...
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lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food d...
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for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a plac...
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For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, an...
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and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard did entreat that a word m...
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for they were not bearing that which is commanded, 'And if a beast may touch the mountain, it shall...
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and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, 'I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'
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But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God (Elohim), to the heavenly Jerusalem, and...
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to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God (Elohim) the judge of a...
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and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Yashua (Jesus), and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better t...
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See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon ear...
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whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once -- I shake not only th...
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and this -- 'Yet once' -- doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having be...
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wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve...
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for also our God (Elohim) [is] a consuming fire.
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