16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. …
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. …
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I. From the gentle and moderate degree and measure of their sufferings: You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin , Heb. 12:4. Observe, 1. He owns that they had suff…
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