Hebrews 12:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 [a]Let there be no fornicator, or profane person as (A)Esau, which for one portion of meat sold his birthright.
17 (B)For ye know how that afterward also when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no [b]place to repentance, though he sought that blessing with tears.
18 [c]For ye are not come unto the (C)mount that might be [d]touched, nor unto burning fire, nor to blackness and darkness, and tempest,
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- Hebrews 12:16 We must eschew fornication, and a profane mind, that is, such a mind, as giveth not to God his due honor, which wickedness how severely God will at length punish, the horrible example of Esau teacheth us.
- Hebrews 12:17 There was no place left for his repentance: and it appeareth by the effects, what his repentance was, for when he was gone out of his father’s sight, he threatened his brother to kill him.
- Hebrews 12:18 Now he applieth the same exhortation, to the Prophetical and kingly office of Christ compared with Moses, after this sort, If the majesty of the Law was so great, how great think you that the glory of Christ and the Gospel is? And this comparison he declareth also particularly.
- Hebrews 12:18 Which might be touched with hands, which was of a gross and earthly matter.
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