Warning and Encouragement

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(A) and to be holy;(B) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(C) 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God(D) and that no bitter root(E) grows up to cause trouble and defile many. 16 See that no one is sexually immoral,(F) or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.(G) 17 Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears,(H) he could not change what he had done.

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14 (A)Pursue peace with all people, and the (B)holiness without which no one will (C)see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one (D)comes short of the grace of God; that no (E)root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many become (F)defiled; 16 that there be no (G)sexually immoral or (H)godless person like Esau, (I)who sold his own birthright for a single meal. 17 For you know that even afterward, (J)when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

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