Hebrews 13:4
2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
3 Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
5 Keep 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.”
6 So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- KJV
- Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- WEB
- Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- ASV
- [Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
- DARBY
- [Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
- BLB
- [Let] marriage [be] honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- ÅB
- Ekteskapet være i akt og ære hos alle, og ektesengen usmittet! for horkarler og ekteskapsbrytere skal Gud dømme.
- OTB
- Ekteskapet skal hedres av alle, og ektesengen holdes ren, for Gud vil dømme ekteskapsbrytere og de som lever umoralsk.
- B1930
- Ekteskapet være i akt og ære hos alle, og ektesengen usmittet! for horkarler og ekteskapsbrytere skal Gud dømme.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Read in contextProverbs 5:15–23
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Read in context1 Corinthians 7:2–16
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Read in contextGalatians 5:19
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Read in contextGenesis 1:27–28
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:9
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,
Read in contextGalatians 5:21
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.
Read in contextColossians 3:5–6
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
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