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Hebrews 13:4

MarriagePurityFaithfulness and loyaltyJudgment

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.

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.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Genesis 2:24

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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  • Proverbs 5:15–23

    Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:2–16

    Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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  • Galatians 5:19

    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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  • Genesis 1:27–28

    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:9

    Know 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,

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  • Galatians 5:21

    Envyings, 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.

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  • Colossians 3:5–6

    Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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