³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

¹⁸ For ^(A)many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you ^(B)even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. ^19 (C)Their end is destruction, ^(D)their god is their belly, and ^(E)they glory in their shame, with ^(F)minds set on earthly things.

³² What do I gain if, humanly speaking, ^(A)I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, ^(B)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ ¹⁹ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ ²⁰ And another said, ^(A)‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

¹⁵ and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they ^(A)paid him ^(B)thirty pieces of silver.

⁵ But ^(A)they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,

¹³ Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—^(A)the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the ^(B)thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.

¹⁶ that no one is ^(A)sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. ¹⁷ For you know that ^(B)afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.