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Hebrews 12:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. "

Hebrews 12:17

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15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,

16 lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

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Hebrews 12:1

"Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,"

Hebrews 12:2

"looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Hebrews 12:3

"For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls."

Hebrews 12:4

"You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin."

Hebrews 12:5

"You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;"

Hebrews 12:6

"for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”"

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