Hebrews 12:16
King James Version (KJV)
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
American Standard Version (ASV)
lest [there be] any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
World English Bible (WEB)
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Hebrews 12:16 Cross References
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
