Hebrews 13:4

Translations

Modern

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Traditional

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

Literal

Let marriage be honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Latin

Honorabile connubium in omnibus, et thorus immaculatus. Fornicatores enim, et adulteros judicabit Deus.

Original

Greek

English

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Notes

Hebrews 13:4

To honor marriage means to protect it and see it as very important.
Sexually immoral refers to any inappropriate sexual behavior.
Adultery breaks the marriage promise by having sexual relations outside the marriage.

Hebrews 13:1–6

This set of practical guidelines is like other ethical lists in the New Testament. It explains how to love others in the faith community, providing a strong ethical foundation for life.

Theme notes and profiles

Biblical Marriage Love in the Community of Christ Marriage and Sexuality

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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.
Proverbs 5:15–23
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
1 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.
Galatians 5:19
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Genesis 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.
1 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,
Galatians 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.
1 Corinthians 5:13
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
Colossians 3:5–6
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Ephesians 5:5
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Genesis 2:21
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:38
So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

Glossary

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