Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.In other versions
lest `there be' any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
ASV
And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.
BBE
lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;
DBY
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
WEB
lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,
YLT
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
ENG
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.
WBT
See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
BSB
In context
14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17For 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.
18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Cross-references
People in this verse
- Esau