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Hebrews 13:4
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Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Mariage is honorable in all, and the bed vndefiled: but whoremongers, and adulterers God will iudge.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Marriage should be honored by everyone, and husband and wife should keep their marriage pure. God will judge as guilty those who take part in sexual sins.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled, for the sexually immoral and adulterers God will judge.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage.
Marriage is honorable in every respect; and, in particular, sex within marriage is pure. But God will indeed punish fornicators and adulterers.
[Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
Marriage should be honored by everyone. And every marriage should be kept pure between husband and wife. God will judge guilty those who commit sexual sins and adultery.
Mariage is honorable among all, and the bed vndefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled; but God will judge those who practice vice and adultery;
Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.1 Corinthians 6:9; Galatians 5:19,21; Ephesians 5:5; Colossians 3:5-6; Revelation 22:15;">[xr]
Honourable is marriage among all, and their bed is undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers Aloha judgeth.
Marriage is honorable in all; and their bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge.
Wedlocke is honorable among all men, and the bed vndefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God wyll iudge.
Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
`Wedding is in alle thingis onourable, and bed vnwemmed; for God schal deme fornicatouris and auouteris.
[Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Marriage [is] honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.
Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
Marriage should be respected by everyone. God will punish those who do sex sins and are not faithful in marriage.
Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.
Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.
Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes and let the chamber be vndefiled: for whore kepers and advoutrars god will iudge.
honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes, & let ye chamber be vndefyled. For whorekepers and aduouterers God wil iudge.
Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.
Marriage should be held in the highest regard. The marital bed must be kept pure. It is just the husband and wife and no one else. God will judge those who are immoral and those who cheat on a marriage.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Marriage: Genesis 1:27, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:21, Genesis 2:24, Leviticus 21:13-15, 2 Kings 22:14, Proverbs 5:15-23, Isaiah 8:3, 1 Corinthians 7:2-16, 1 Corinthians 9:5, 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:4, 1 Timothy 3:12, 1 Timothy 5:14, Titus 1:6
and the bed: Hebrews 12:16, 1 Corinthians 6:9, Galatians 5:19, Galatians 5:21, Ephesians 5:5, Colossians 3:5, Colossians 3:6, Revelation 22:15
God: Psalms 50:16-22, Malachi 3:5, 1 Corinthians 5:13, 2 Corinthians 5:10
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:22 - brought Genesis 12:15 - taken Genesis 12:17 - General Genesis 20:7 - surely Genesis 20:9 - a great Genesis 34:7 - thing Genesis 39:9 - how then Exodus 20:14 - General Leviticus 15:18 - unclean Leviticus 15:24 - General Leviticus 18:20 - General Numbers 5:16 - set her Numbers 5:18 - the priest Deuteronomy 22:22 - General Ruth 4:10 - ye are witnesses 2 Samuel 11:27 - displeased Job 31:2 - General Job 31:12 - General Psalms 50:18 - hast been partaker Proverbs 5:11 - thou Proverbs 5:22 - sins Proverbs 6:32 - destroyeth Jeremiah 5:7 - they then Jeremiah 23:10 - full Ezekiel 18:6 - neither hath defiled Ezekiel 22:11 - committed Matthew 8:14 - wife's Matthew 19:6 - God Mark 10:11 - Whosoever Luke 20:34 - marry John 2:1 - a marriage John 2:2 - the marriage John 4:18 - is not Acts 15:20 - fornication 1 Corinthians 6:18 - Flee 1 Corinthians 7:28 - thou hast 1 Corinthians 7:38 - doeth well 1 Corinthians 16:14 - General 2 Corinthians 12:21 - uncleanness Ephesians 5:3 - fornication 1 Thessalonians 4:3 - that 1 Thessalonians 4:4 - honour 1 Timothy 1:10 - whoremongers 1 Timothy 4:3 - Forbidding 2 Peter 2:10 - that Revelation 2:14 - to commit Revelation 21:8 - and the
Cross-References
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold.
He moved on from the Negev, camping along the way, to Bethel, the place he had first set up his tent between Bethel and Ai and built his first altar. Abram prayed there to God .
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
God , I love living with you; your house glows with your glory. When it's time for spring cleaning, don't sweep me out with the quacks and crooks, Men with bags of dirty tricks, women with purses stuffed with bribe-money.
One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. I'd rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin. All sunshine and sovereign is God , generous in gifts and glory. He doesn't scrimp with his traveling companions. It's smooth sailing all the way with God -of-the-Angel-Armies.
Oh, thank God —he's so good! His love never runs out. All of you set free by God , tell the world! Tell how he freed you from oppression, Then rounded you up from all over the place, from the four winds, from the seven seas.
God 's there, listening for all who pray, for all who pray and mean it.
"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen.
"In the end I will turn things around for the people. I'll give them a language undistorted, unpolluted, Words to address God in worship and, united, to serve me with their shoulders to the wheel. They'll come from beyond the Ethiopian rivers, they'll come praying— All my scattered, exiled people will come home with offerings for worship. You'll no longer have to be ashamed of all those acts of rebellion. I'll have gotten rid of your arrogant leaders. No more pious strutting on my holy hill! I'll leave a core of people among you who are poor in spirit— What's left of Israel that's really Israel. They'll make their home in God . This core holy people will not do wrong. They won't lie, won't use words to flatter or seduce. Content with who they are and where they are, unanxious, they'll live at peace."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Marriage is honourable in all,.... Some read these words as an exhortation, "let" it "be so"; others as an assertion, it is so. "Marriage" is the union of one man and one woman in wedlock, whereby they become one flesh; it is a joining together of male and female in this relation, and of two only, and of such as are not within the degrees of blood forbid by the law, Leviticus 18:6 and of such as are fit for marriage: and this is "honourable", as it was instituted by God, and has been honoured with the presence of Christ, Genesis 2:22. And it is so in the ends of it, being to procreate children, multiply the earth, build up families, preserve a legitimate offspring, and prevent fornication and all uncleanness; and it is so, when the duties of the relation are performed on both sides: and it is honourable "in all"; in all things, in all respects, upon all accounts; "every way", as the Arabic version renders it; or as the Ethiopic version, "everywhere"; it has been honourably esteemed of among all nations; it becomes persons of all ranks and degrees, quality, and order; and it is honourable in all that are lawfully married, and do not violate the marriage contract, or defile the marriage bed: hereby are condemned such who despise marriage, that they may give a loose to their wandering and insatiable lusts; and such who, under a pretence of greater sanctity and perfection, reject it as unlawful; and the Papists, who deny it to men employed in sacred work:
and the bed undefiled: the Arabic version reads, "his bed"; and the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, "their bed"; the bed of such whose marriage is honourable; which is not polluted by admitting others into it, or by acts of fornication and adultery: "but", or "for", as the Alexandrian copy reads,
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge; the former of these may be rendered "fornicators", as it is by the Vulgate Latin version: fornication is a sin committed by single persons, unmarried ones; and though it was reckoned among the Gentiles a thing indifferent, yet is contrary to the law of God, and is a work of the flesh, and makes unfit for the kingdom of God, and brings down the judgments of God both here and hereafter. And this is in opposition to marriage, which is appointed to prevent it. The sin "adulterers" are guilty of, is a sin committed by persons, who are either one or both in a married state, and so is directly a pollution of the marriage bed: this was punishable with death by the law of God, and light of nature; and though men may make light of it, God will judge and punish such as commit it, both in this life, with diseases, poverty, and disgrace, and in the world to come, at the great day of account; for however secretly it may be committed, God, who is omniscient, sees it, and will bring it into judgment; nor shall any be able to escape the righteous judgment of God, for he is omnipotent, as well as omniscient. The Jews say,
"whoever lies with another man's wife, shall not escape
דינה, "the judgment", or damnation of hell t''
t T. Bab. Sota. fol. 4. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Marriage is honorable in all - The object here is to state that “honor” is to be shown to the marriage relation. It is not to be undervalued by the pretence of the superior purity of a state of celibacy, as if marriage were improper for any class of people or any condition of life; and it should not be dishonored by any violation of the marriage contract. The course of things has shown that there was abundant reason for the apostle to assert with emphasis, that “marriage was an honorable condition of life.” There has been a constant effort made to show that celibacy was a more holy state; that there was something in marriage that rendered it “dishonorable” for those who are in the ministry, and for those of either sex who would be eminently pure. This sentiment has been the cause of more abomination in the world than any other single opinion claiming to have a religious sanction. It is one of the supports on which the Papal system rests, and has been one of the principal upholders of all the corruptions in monasteries and nunneries. The apostle asserts, without any restriction or qualification, that marriage is honorable in all; and this proves that it is lawful for the ministers of religion to marry, and that the whole doctrine of the superior purity of a state of celibacy is false; see this subject examined in the notes on 1 Corinthians 7:0.
And the bed undefiled - Fidelity to the marriage vow.
But whore mongers and adulterers God will judge - All licentiousness of life, and all violations of the marriage covenant, will be severely punished by God; see the notes on 1 Corinthians 6:9. The sins here referred to prevailed everywhere, and hence, there was the more propriety for the frequent and solemn injunctions to avoid them which we find in the Scriptures.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hebrews 13:4. Marriage is honourable in all — Let this state be highly esteemed as one of God's own instituting, and as highly calculated to produce the best interests of mankind. This may have been said against the opinions of the Essenes, called Therapeutae, who held marriage in little repute, and totally abstained from it themselves as a state of comparative imperfection. At the same time it shows the absurdity of the popish tenet, that marriage in the clergy is both dishonourable and sinful; which is, in fact, in opposition to the apostle, who says marriage is honourable in ALL; and to the institution of God, which evidently designed that every male and female should be united in this holy bond; and to nature, which in every part of the habitable world has produced men and women in due proportion to each other.
The bed undefiled — Every man cleaving to his own wife, and every wife cleaving to her own husband, because God will judge, i.e. punish, all fornicators and adulterers.
Instead of δε but, γαρ, for, is the reading of AD*, one other, with the Vulgate, Coptic, and one of the Itala; it more forcibly expresses the reason of the prohibition: Let the bed be undefiled, FOR whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
