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lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
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The Danger of a Profane Heart
Commentators define a "profane" person, like Esau, as someone who despises sacred things. Esau's profanity was a mindset that valued a temporary meal over his God-given spiritual inheritance. The verse warns believers against adopting this worldly perspective, where immediate gratification is chosen over the priceless, eternal blessings found in Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lest there be any fornicator. The sin referred to here is one of those that would spread corruption in the church, and against which they …
Profane (βεβηλος). Trodden under foot, unhallowed (1 Timothy 1:9).
For one mess of meat (αντ β…
19th Century
Anglican
Lest there be—Better (as in the last verse), whether there be. Though Jewish tradition (see, for example, the Targum of P…
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Baptist
Lest there be any fornicator,
Fornication was far too common in the early church, but it was not thought to be sin by the great mas…
(3) The final warning begins with a reference to the “sexually immoral” (GK 4521), a warning that occurs frequently in Scripture. With this is coup…
16th Century
Protestant
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, etc. As he had previously exhorted them to holiness, so now, so that he might rec…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person The first of these is guilty of a sin against the second table of the…
A burden of affliction tends to make the Christian's hands hang down and his knees grow feeble, to dishearten and discourage him; but he must striv…
13th Century
Catholic
Having indicated how we should behave toward the enduring evils of chastisement, the Apostle now shows how we should act to avoid the evils of guil…
