Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
KJV
μή τις πόρνος ἢ βέβηλος ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὃς ἀντὶ βρώσεως μιᾶς ἀπέδετο τὰ πρωτοτόκια ἑαυτοῦ.
Greek NT
Ne quis fornicator, aut profanus ut Esau : qui propter unam escam vendidit primitiva sua :
Vulgate
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
ASV
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.
Douay-Rheims
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People
Esau
In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βέβηλος
bebelos
adjective · 5×
βρῶσις
brosis
noun · 11×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πρωτοτόκια
prototokia
noun · 1×
πόρνος
pornos
noun · 10×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀντί
anti
preposition · 22×
ἀποδίδωμι
apodidomi
verb · 48×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
Ἠσαῦ
esau
noun · 3×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἑαυτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἑαυτοῦ | RP: αὐτοῦ
- ἑαυτοῦ — SBLGNT
- ἑαυτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- αὐτοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. In another place he says the same, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal 2 Corinthians 4:18; and from this makes an exhortation with regard to the evils which we endure in this present life; and here he does this, and says, let us continue steadfast; let us have thankfulness, i.e., let us give thanks unto God. For not only …
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter. The history of Jacob and Esau is introduced to show the sovereign freedom of God's election. The elder shall serve the younger — this was declared before either had done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand. Esau's selling his birthright for a mess of pottage shows the profanity of those who de…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- 1Cor 6:15 — Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
- 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
- 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
- Acts 15:29 — That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
- Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
- Gen 25:31 — And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
- Gen 25:33 — And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
- Gen 25:34 — Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Gen 26:34 — And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- Luke 14:18 — And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
- Mark 4:15 — And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
- Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Ps 106:24 — Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
- Rev 22:15 — For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.