Hebrews 12:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: The holy God can only be seen by holy eyes. He must make us like himself before we can see him.
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Hebrews 12:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Follow peace with all men, You will not always get it, but follow it — run after it.
Hebrews 12:14-17
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would...
Hebrews 12:15
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Looking diligently,.... Acting the part of bishops, or overseers, as the word signifies; and so this exhortation either respects officers of the church of the Hebrews, whose business it was more especially to inspect into the principles and practices of the members of it, and take care that they did not imbibe false doctrines, or live immoral...
Hebrews 12:15-17
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he...
Hebrews 12:15-16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator,- Fornication was the special sin of that age: in fact, so common was it that the heathen did not reckon it to be a sin at all. Knowing of the tendency to licentiousness in all around them, Paul specially warned the Hebrew Christians...
Hebrews 12:15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; Seeming to have grace, and yet not really having it Heb_12:15. Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Sin is a bitter thing and a defiling thing and unless we look diligently, it will grow in our hearts like the weeds grow in our gardens after a...
Hebrews 12:16
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person,.... The first of these is guilty of a sin against the second table of the law, as well as against his own body; and which is opposed to the holiness the apostle had before exhorted to; such who are guilty of it, are not to be continued in the communion of the church; and it is a sin, which, lived in...
Hebrews 12:16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Those who seek the pleasures of the flesh rather than the pleasures of a higher world are here put side by side with Esau. Now Esau sold the right to his future heritage for a present mess of pottage, and many there are who do something very...
Hebrews 12:16-17
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. His father could not transfer to him the blessing which he had given to Jacob.
Hebrews 12:16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 mass of the heathen; but, oh, what a defiling sin it is! Heb_12:16. Or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. He was thus guilty of spiritual fornication, preferring his meat to his...
Hebrews 12:17
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For ye know how that afterwards,.... After he had had his pottage; after he had sold his birthright for it, and the blessing with it; after his father had blessed Jacob: this the apostle relates to the Hebrews, as a thing well known to them; they having read the books of Moses, and being conversant with them, in which the whole history of this...
Hebrews 12:17
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought at carefully with tears. He never repented of his sin, but only of the consequences of it. He never sought pardon of God, but only sought to inherit the blessing. And there will be many, who have lived...
Hebrews 12:17
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. He could not get his father to change his mind concerning Jacob; on the contrary, he said, “I have blessed him; yea, and he shall be blessed.” His many tears availed not, they...
Hebrews 12:18
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched,.... The design of the apostle in the following words is, in general, to engage the Hebrews to adhere closely to the Gospel, from the consideration of the superior excellency of it to the law; and in particular, to enforce his former exhortations to cheerfulness under afflictions; to an...
Hebrews 12:18-21
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a...
Hebrews 12:18-21
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a...
Hebrews 12:18-24
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a...
Hebrews 12:19
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the sound of a trumpet,.... Exodus 19:16, which made it still more awful, as the sound of the trumpet will at the last day: and the voice of words; of the ten words, or decalogue; which was as an articulate voice, formed by angels; and, therefore, the law is called the word spoken by angels, Hebrews 2:2 and is represented, as the voice of God...
Hebrews 12:20
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For they could not endure that which was commanded,.... In the law; not that they disliked and despised the law, as unregenerate men do; but they could not endure it, or bear it, as a yoke, it being a yoke of bondage; nor as a covenant of works, it requiring perfect obedience, but giving no strength to perform; and as it showed them their sins,...