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 many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.^{(A) 19} Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.^(B)

³² If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised,

¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my regrets.’ ¹⁹ Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’ ²⁰ Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’^(A)

¹⁵ and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.^(A)

⁵ But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business,

¹³ Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it into the treasury”^[a]—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury^[b] in the house of the Lord.^(A)

¹⁶ See to it that no one becomes an immoral and godless person, as Esau was, who sold his birthright for a single meal.^{(A) 17} You know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, even though he sought the blessing^[a] with tears.^(B)