KJV King James Version
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
WEB 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.
ASV American Standard Version
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
Surrounding context — Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5 [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΤίμιοςG5093 · timiospreciousὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoγάμοςG1062 · gamosweddingἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongπᾶσινG3956 · pasallκαὶG2532 · kaiandἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoκοίτηG2845 · koitēbedἀμίαντος·G283 · amiantospureπόρνουςG4205 · pornossexual sinnerγὰρG1063 · garforκαὶG2532 · kaiandμοιχοὺςG3432 · moichosadultererκρινεῖG2919 · krinōto judgeὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεός.¶G2316 · theosGod
Cross-references
Genesis 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.Proverbs 5:15-23Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.1 Corinthians 7:2-16Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Genesis 1:27-28So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.1 Corinthians 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.1 Corinthians 5:13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.Colossians 3:5-6Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:Ephesians 5:5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.1 Corinthians 7:38So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.1 Timothy 3:12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.1 Timothy 3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;Genesis 2:21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;1 Corinthians 9:5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.1 Timothy 5:14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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