World English Bible
Hebrews 12:16
“lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.”
Verse in context — Hebrews 12
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Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
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looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
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lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
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For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
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For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
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