Hebrews 12:16 — King James Version← Study notes
“Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.”
Hebrews 12:16 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · Hebrews 12:1615 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 12:16
“Lest there be any fornicator: or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” And wherein was Esau a “fornicator”? He does not say that Esau was a fornicator. “Lest there be any fornicator,” he says, then, “follow after holiness: lest there be any, as Esau, profane”: that is, gluttonous, without self-control, worldly, selling away things spiritual. “Who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright,” who through his own slothfulness sold this…
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