So he said, ‘Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? , For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.’ Then he asked, ‘Haven’t you saved a blessing for me? ’
Hebrews 12:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That no one may become guilty of sexual vice, or become a profane (godless and sacrilegious) person as Esau did, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. [Gen. 25:29-34.] American Standard Version (1901) lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. Common English Bible Make sure that no one becomes sexually immoral or ungodly like Esau. He sold his inheritance as the oldest son for one meal. Catholic Public Domain Version lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who for one mess, sold his first birthright. |
So he said, ‘Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? , For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.’ Then he asked, ‘Haven’t you saved a blessing for me? ’
For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.’
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.
I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they practised.
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
For know and recognise this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars #– #their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.’
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.