16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.


In Context

13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

15 Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you, and by it many be defiled;

16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

17 For ye know 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.

18 For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to darkness, and tempest,

Hebrews 12:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:16Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:16See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who for one mess, sold his first birthright.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:16lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:16lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.