Hebrews 13:4 Parallel Translations

Marriage is honorable in every way, so husbands and wives should be faithful to each other. God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

ASV:

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

BBE:

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

DBY:

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

ERV:

Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

WEY:

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

WBS:

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons 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.

YLT:

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Hebrews 13:4 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 7:38 So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

Galatians 5:19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Galatians 5:21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:6 and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

1 Timothy 4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

13:4 {2} Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
(2) He commends chaste matrimony in all sorts of men, and threatens utter destruction from God against whoremongers and adulterers.

PNT:

13:4 Marriage [is] honourable in all. Let it be held in honor, but licentiousness
God will judge, even though men may tolerate it.

WES:

13:4 Marriage is honourable in, or for all sorts of men, clergy as well as laity: though the Romanists teach otherwise. And the bed undefiled - Consistent with the highest purity; though many spiritual writers, so called, say it is only licensed whoredom. But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge - Though they frequently escape the sentence of men.

MHC:

13:1-6 The design of Christ in giving himself for us, is, that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. Here are earnest exhortations to several Christian duties, especially contentment. The sin opposed to this grace and duty is covetousness, an over-eager desire for the wealth of this world, with envy of those who have more than ourselves. Having treasures in heaven, we may be content with mean things here. Those who cannot be so, would not be content though God raised their condition. Adam was in paradise, yet not contented; some angels in heaven were not contented; but the apostle Paul, though abased and empty, had learned in every state, in any state, to be content. Christians have reason to be contented with their present lot. This promise contains the sum and substance of all the promises; I will never, no, never leave thee, no, never forsake thee. In the original there are no less than five negatives put together, to confirm the promise: the true believer shall have the gracious presence of God with him, in life, at death, and for ever. Men can do nothing against God, and God can make all that men do against his people, to turn to their good.

CONC:

Adulterer Adulterers Adulterous Bed Fornicators Held Honor Honorable Honored Honour Honourable Honoured Immoral Judge Judged Kept Lewd Marriage Married Persons Pure Sexually Unclean Undefiled Unpolluted Untrue Whoremongers

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