Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled,…”

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

World English Bible

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

American Standard Version

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mariage is honorable among all, and the bed vndefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge.

Darby Translation

[Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

Young's Literal Translation

honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Bible in Basic English

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

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Cross references

“Marriage”

Genesis 2:24 Proverbs 5:15–23 1 Corinthians 7:2–16 Genesis 2:21 1 Timothy 3:4 1 Timothy 3:12

Genesis 2:24 · BSB

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Proverbs 5:15–23 · BSB

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

1 Corinthians 7:2–16 · BSB

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

Genesis 2:21 · BSB

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.

1 Timothy 3:4 · BSB

An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

1 Timothy 3:12 · BSB

A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

“and the bed”

Galatians 5:19 1 Corinthians 6:9 Galatians 5:21 Ephesians 5:5 Revelation 22:15 Hebrews 12:16

Galatians 5:19 · BSB

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

1 Corinthians 6:9 · BSB

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

Galatians 5:21 · BSB

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:5 · BSB

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Revelation 22:15 · BSB

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Hebrews 12:16 · BSB

See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

“God”

1 Corinthians 5:13 Malachi 3:5 2 Corinthians 5:10 Psalm 50:16–22

1 Corinthians 5:13 · BSB

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

Malachi 3:5 · BSB

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their…

2 Corinthians 5:10 · BSB

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

Psalm 50:16–22 · BSB

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

Also

1 Corinthians 7:38 1 Timothy 4:3

1 Corinthians 7:38 · BSB

So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

1 Timothy 4:3 · BSB

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

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