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Hebrews 12:16

WEB

16lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

KJV

16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

BSB

16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

FBV

16Make sure there's nobody who is sexually immoral, or irreligious, like Esau was. He sold his birthright for a single meal.

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Extra References

Genesis 25:31-34

31[+] Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

32Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

33Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

34Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.


1 Corinthians 6:15-20

15Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Revelation 22:15

15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.


Hebrews 13:4

4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.


Mark 7:21

21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,


Acts 15:29

29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”


1 Thessalonians 4:3-7

3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, 4that each one of you know how to control his own body[+] in sanctification and honor, 5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, 6that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. 7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.


Galatians 5:19-21

19Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.


1 Corinthians 5:9-11

9I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; 10yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. 11But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.


Genesis 27:36

36He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”