Hebrews 12:17

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For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

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  • Gen 27:30-41 : 30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. 31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him,“My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.” 32 His father Isaac asked,“Who are you?”“I am your firstborn son,” he replied,“Esau!” 33 Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!” 34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!” 35 But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.” 36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?” 37 Isaac replied to Esau,“Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?” 38 Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly. 39 So his father Isaac said to him,“See here, your home will be by the richness of the earth, and by the dew of the sky above. 40 You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.” 41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
  • Prov 1:24-31 : 24 However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention, 25 and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke, 26 so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes, 27 when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you. 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me. 29 Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD, 30 they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke. 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 Then I will declare to them,‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
  • Matt 25:11-12 : 11 Later, the other virgins came too, saying,‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’ 12 But he replied,‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!’
  • Luke 13:24-27 : 24 “Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him,‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you,‘I don’t know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say,‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will reply,‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, 6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
  • Heb 10:26-29 : 26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, 27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies. 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

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    15See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.

    16And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

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    38Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

  • Gen 27:33-36
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    33Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”

    34When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!”

    35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”

    36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

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    18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

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    41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”

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    6How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered! Their hidden valuables will be ransacked!

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    29How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

  • Gen 25:32-34
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    32“Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

    33But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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    4You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

    5And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

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    30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

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    6and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

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    35They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.

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    20By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

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    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

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    5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

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    26For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

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    26He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

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    12My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”

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    13You also do this: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.

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    6Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

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    4But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

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    10But I will strip everything away from Esau’s descendants. I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide. Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed. Not one of them will be left!

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    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

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    12it was said to her,“The older will serve the younger,”

    13just as it is written:“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

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    22Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.

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    17In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,