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Hebrews 12:16

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

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  1. Hebrews 12:14

    Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

  2. Hebrews 12:15

    Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

  3. Hebrews 12:17

    For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

  4. Hebrews 12:18

    For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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