---

Some blessings which, when lost, are lost for ever.

1. Opportunities for an education.

2. Purity. Sin may be forgiven, but the memory remains. We can have absolute purity only once.

3. Means of grace. We may improve the present, but the means unimproved in the past are for ever lost.

4. Opportunities for doing good. Present work will not make good past neglect.

5. The blessings of a Christian home in childhood.

6. A soul finally lost. There is a time beyond which there is no redemption. The time will come when you will seek these blessings with tears, but it will be too late — for ever too late.

(W. M. Hamma, D. D.)

---

---

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

WEB: lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.