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


In Context

13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

15 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;

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

17 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.

18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

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.