Lest there {be} any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, {that they are} the enemies of the cross of Christ:

And said {unto them}, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. {after...: or, to speak after the manner of men}

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty {pieces} of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: {the pleasant...: Heb. a land of desire}

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

And they all with one {consent} began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

And the remnant took his servants, and entreated {them} spitefully, and slew {them}.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: {the pleasant...: Heb. a land of desire}

And the remnant took his servants, and entreated {them} spitefully, and slew {them}.

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.