Hebrews 12:16 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 12:16

See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Lest there be any fornicator - Any licentious person who would turn the Gospel of the grace of God into lasciviousness. Or profane person, as Esau - It is not intimated that Esau was a fornicator; and the disjunctive η, or, separates the profane person from the fornicator. And Esau is here termed profane, because he so far disregarded the spiritual advantages connected with his rights of primogeniture, that he alienated the whole for a single mess of pottage. See the note on Gen 25:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Bunyan

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)

Now was I as one bound, I felt myself shut up unto the judgment to come; nothing now, for two years together, would abide with me, but damnation, and an expectation of damnation.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
μή	mē	lest [there be]	G3361 →
τις	tis	any	G5100 →
πόρνος	pornos	fornicator	G4205 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
βέβηλος	bebēlos	profane person	G952 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
Ἠσαῦ,	Ēsau	Esau,	G2269 →
ὃς	hos	who	G3739 →
ἀντὶ	anti	for	G473 →
βρώσεως	brōseōs	meal	G1035 →
μιᾶς	mias	one	G1520 →
ἀπέδετο	apedeto	sold	G591 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
πρωτοτόκια	prōtotokia	birthright	G4415 →
ἑαυτοῦ.	he'autou	of himself.	G1438 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
leads to
- Genesis 2:24
  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Proverbs 5:15–23
  Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2–16
  But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- Galatians 5:19
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Genesis 1:27–28
  So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Through
Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
leads to
- Galatians 5:19–21
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 21:8
  But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
Through
Mark 7:21
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
leads to
- Jeremiah 17:9
  The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

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