Hebrews 12:16
King James Version (KJV)
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
In context
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 thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For 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.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Hebrews 12:16 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
- WEB World English Bible
- lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
- ASV American Standard Version
- lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,
- DBY Darby Translation
- lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;
- WBS Webster Bible
- Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.