Cross references
Hebrews 12:16
See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
Hebrews 12:16 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 25:31–34 (14 votes) and 1 Corinthians 6:15–20 (8 votes). 32 other verses point back to it. It links with 24 other books, from Genesis 25 to Revelation 22.
Which verses does Hebrews 12:16 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 25:31–3414 votes
“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied. “Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?” …
- 1 Corinthians 6:15–208 votes
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” …
- Hebrews 13:46 votes
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Mark 7:215 votes
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Revelation 22:155 votes
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Acts 15:293 votes
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3–73 votes
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, …
- Genesis 27:362 votes
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- Acts 15:202 votes
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- 1 Corinthians 5:1–62 votes
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this? …
- 1 Corinthians 5:9–112 votes
- 1 Corinthians 10:82 votes
- 2 Corinthians 12:212 votes
- Galatians 5:19–212 votes
- Ephesians 5:52 votes
- Colossians 3:52 votes
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- Revelation 2:20–232 votes
- Ephesians 5:31 vote
- Revelation 21:81 vote
Which verses point to Hebrews 12:16?
The 10 strongest of 32.