Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.
New American Standard Bible
that there be no
King James Version
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Holman Bible
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent
International Standard Version
No one should be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
A Conservative Version
lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.
American Standard Version
lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
Amplified
and [see to it] that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
An Understandable Version
and that no one becomes immoral or ungodly, like Esau, who sold his right to the firstborn son's inheritance for a single meal.
Anderson New Testament
lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.
Bible in Basic English
And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.
Common New Testament
that no one be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess."
Darby Translation
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;
Godbey New Testament
lest any one may be a fornicator, or a profane person, as was Esau, who for one morsel sold his birthright.
John Wesley New Testament
as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright:
Julia Smith Translation
Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture.
King James 2000
Lest there be any immoral, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Modern King James verseion
(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright.
Moffatt New Testament
that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did ??Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.
Montgomery New Testament
Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.
NET Bible
And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
New Heart English Bible
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.
Noyes New Testament
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person as Esau, who for one meal sold even his birthright.
Sawyer New Testament
that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.
The Emphasized Bible
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, like Esau, - who, for the sake of one meal, yielded up his own firstborn rights;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
Webster
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.
Weymouth New Testament
lest there be a fornicator, or an ungodly person like Esau, who, in return for a single meal, parted with the birthright which belonged to him.
Williams New Testament
some immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
World English Bible
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Worrell New Testament
lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right.
Worsley New Testament
least there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one repast gave away his birthright.
Youngs Literal Translation
lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,
Themes
Children » Good Children » Good Parents » Birthright of
Esau » Sells his birthright for a single meal
Esau » The man who lost his inheritance, facts concerning » Sought to repent when too late
Firstborn » Birthright of the » Sold by esau
Gluttony » Instances of » Esau
Heedfulness » Necessary » Against sin
jacob » Obtains esau's birthright for just one bowl of stew
Repentance » Unavailing » To esau
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Word Count of 36 Translations in Hebrews 12:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Serious Warning Against Refusing God
15 Take care [that] no one falls short of the grace of God; [that] no one growing up [like] a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 [that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright. 17 For you know that also afterwards, [when he] wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
Cross References
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
Genesis 25:31-34
Then Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright {first}."
Genesis 27:36
Then he said, "{Isn't that why he is named Jacob}? He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!" Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
Mark 7:21
For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
Acts 15:20
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
Acts 15:29
[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.
1 Corinthians 5:1-6
It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
1 Corinthians 6:15-20
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, shall I take away the members of Christ [and] make [them] members of a prostitute? May it never be!
1 Corinthians 10:8
nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day,
2 Corinthians 12:21
[I am afraid] lest [when I] come again my God will humiliate me {in your presence}, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
Ephesians 5:3
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
Ephesians 5:5
For this you know {for certain}, that every sexually immoral [person], or unclean [person], or greedy [person] (who is an idolater), does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Colossians 3:5
Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
Revelation 2:20-23
But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 21:8
But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.