Hebrews 12:16
World English Bible (WEB)
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
In context
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 every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
- KJV King James Version
- Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
- 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.