Hebrews 12:14-17

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁴ Try to live peacefully with everyone, and try to live holy lives, because if you don’t, you will not see the Lord. ¹⁵ Make sure that everyone has kindness ^[a] from God so that bitterness doesn’t take root and grow up to cause trouble that corrupts many of you. ¹⁶ Make sure that no one commits sexual sin or is as concerned about earthly things as Esau was. He sold his rights as the firstborn son for a single meal. ¹⁷ You know that afterwards, when he wanted to receive the blessing that the firstborn son was to receive, he was rejected. Even though he begged and cried for the blessing, he couldn’t do anything to change what had happened.