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Hebrews 12

Heb. 12:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Lest there
me (Greek #3361)
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas 3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
KJV usage: any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not, nothing, that not, un(-taken), without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also 3362, 3363, 3364, 3372, 3373, 3375, 3378.
Pronounce: may
Origin: a primary particle of qualified negation (whereas 3756 expresses an absolute denial)
be any
tis (Greek #5100)
some or any person or object
KJV usage: a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever).
Pronounce: tis
Origin: an enclitic indefinite pronoun
fornicator
pornos (Greek #4205)
a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine)
KJV usage: fornicator, whoremonger.
Pronounce: por'-nos
Origin: from πέρνημι (to sell; akin to the base of 4097)
s, or
e (Greek #2228)
disjunctive, or; comparative, than
KJV usage: and, but (either), (n-)either, except it be, (n-)or (else), rather, save, than, that, what, yea. Often used in connection with other particles. Compare especially 2235, 2260, 2273.
Pronounce: ay
Origin: a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms
profane person
bebelos (Greek #952)
accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e. (by implication, of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked
KJV usage: profane (person).
Pronounce: beb'-ay-los
Origin: from the base of 939 and βηλός (a threshold)
, as
hos (Greek #5613)
which how, i.e. in that manner (very variously used, as follows)
KJV usage: about, after (that), (according) as (it had been, it were), as soon (as), even as (like), for, how (greatly), like (as, unto), since, so (that), that, to wit, unto, when(-soever), while, X with all speed.
Pronounce: hoce
Origin: probably adverb of comparative from 3739
Esau
Esau (Greek #2269)
Esau, an Edomite
KJV usage: Esau.
Pronounce: ay-sow'
Origin: of Hebrew origin (06215)
, who
hos (Greek #3739)
the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that
KJV usage: one, (an-, the) other, some, that, what, which, who(-m, -se), etc. See also 3757.
Pronounce: hos
Origin: ἥ (hay), and neuter ὅ (ho) probably a primary word (or perhaps a form of the article 3588)
t for
anti (Greek #473)
opposite, i.e. instead or because of (rarely in addition to)
KJV usage: for, in the room of. Often used in composition to denote contrast, requital, substitution, correspondence, etc.
Pronounce: an-tee'
Origin: a primary particle
one
heis (Greek #1520)
a primary numeral; one
KJV usage: a(-n, -ny, certain), + abundantly, man, one (another), only, other, some. See also 1527, 3367, 3391, 3762.
Pronounce: hice
Origin: (including the neuter (etc.) ἕν)
morsel of meat
brosis (Greek #1035)
(abstractly) eating (literally or figuratively); by extension (concretely) food (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: eating, food, meat.
Pronounce: bro'-sis
Origin: from the base of 977
sold
apodidomi (Greek #591)
to give away, i.e. up, over, back, etc. (in various applications)
KJV usage: deliver (again), give (again), (re-)pay(-ment be made), perform, recompense, render, requite, restore, reward, sell, yield.
Pronounce: ap-od-eed'-o-mee
Origin: from 575 and 1325
his
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
birthright
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
prototokia (Greek #4415)
primogeniture (as a privilege)
KJV usage: birthright.
Pronounce: pro-tot-ok'-ee-ah
Origin: from 4416
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1 Cor. 6:13,18• 13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
 18Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:13,18)
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Gen. 25:33• 33And Jacob said, Swear unto me now. And he swore unto him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. (Gen. 25:33)

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Birth-Right,
Esau,
Fornication,
Meat

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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any fornicator.
Heb. 13:4• 4Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. (Heb. 13:4)
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Mark 7:21• 21For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, (Mark 7:21)
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Acts 15:20,29• 20but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
 29to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell. (Acts 15:20,29)
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1 Cor. 5:1‑6,9‑11• 1It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
 2And *ye* are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.
 3For *I*, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,
 4to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:
 5to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
 6Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
 9I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
 10not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.
 11But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:1‑6,9‑11)
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1 Cor. 6:15‑20• 15Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.
 16Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
 17But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
 18Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
 19Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?
 20for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body. (1 Cor. 6:15‑20)
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1 Cor. 10:8• 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (1 Cor. 10:8)
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2 Cor. 12:21• 21lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)
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Gal. 5:19‑21• 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
 21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)
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Eph. 5:3,5• 3But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
 5For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:3,5)
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Col. 3:5• 5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. (Col. 3:5)
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1 Thess. 4:3‑7• 3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
 4that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
 5(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)
 6not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.
 7For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. (1 Thess. 4:3‑7)
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Rev. 2:20‑23• 20But I have against thee that thou permittest the woman Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and leads astray my servants to commit fornication and eat of idol sacrifices.
 21And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.
 22Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
 23and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that *I* am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works. (Rev. 2:20‑23)
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Rev. 21:8• 8But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)
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Rev. 22:15• 15Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)
as Esau.
Gen. 25:31‑34• 31And Jacob said, Sell me now thy birthright.
 32And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and of what use can the birthright be to me?
 33And Jacob said, Swear unto me now. And he swore unto him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
 34And Jacob gave Esau bread and the dish of lentils; and he ate and drank, and rose up and went away. Thus Esau despised the birthright. (Gen. 25:31‑34)
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Gen. 27:36• 36And he said, Is it not therefore he was named Jacob, for he has supplanted me now twice? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? (Gen. 27:36)
• Thus we learn what a profane person is, that is, one who would like to hold both worlds; one who would like to enjoy the present, without forfeiting his title to the future. (“Genesis 27-35” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• Every Hebrew was familiar with a tale, humbling indeed for all concerned; but Esau stood on unhallowed ground, where God's promise yet more was despised than his own birthright. What a warning to those Hebrews in danger of giving up incomparably better blessings with Him Whose kingdom did not immediately appear, as they fondly hoped! (“Hebrews 12:12-17” by W. Kelly)
• We are warned against treating divine things as if they were common. This is profanity, of which Esau is a solemn example. (“God's Means to Keep Us in the Path of Faith: Hebrews 12” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

W. Kelly Translation

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lest [there be] any fornicator or profane one as Esau who for one meal sold his own birthright;