Hebrews 13:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
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“Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hebrews 13:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- Genesis 2:21So 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.
- Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Leviticus 15:18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 21:13The woman he marries must be a virgin.
- 2 Kings 22:14So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
- Job 31:12For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
- Psalms 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
- Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- Isaiah 8:3And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
- Malachi 3:5“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 wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- 1 Corinthians 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do 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,
- 1 Corinthians 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:38So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
- 1 Corinthians 9:5Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
- 2 Corinthians 5:10For 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.
- Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Galatians 5:21and 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 5:5For 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.
- Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 1 Timothy 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- 1 Timothy 3:4An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
- 1 Timothy 3:12A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
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