King James Version (KJV)
Hebrews 12:16
“Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.”
Verse in context — Hebrews 12
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Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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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;
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Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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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.
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For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
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