Hebrews 13:4
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Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Marriage.

Genesis 1:27,28 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. . . .

Genesis 2:21,24 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. . . .

Leviticus 21:13-15 He shall take a virgin unto his wife. . . .

2 Kings 22:14 So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Sapham, and Asaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of Thecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in Jerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her.

Proverbs 5:15-23 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. . . .

Isaiah 8:3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey.

1 Corinthians 7:2 But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

*etc:

1 Corinthians 9:5 Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

1 Timothy 3:2,4,12 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, . . .

1 Timothy 5:14 I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

Titus 1:6 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.

and the bed.

Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

Galatians 5:19,21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, . . .

Ephesians 5:5 For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Colossians 3:5,6 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

God.

Psalm 50:16-22 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? . . .

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Corinthians 5:13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

Context
Brotherly Love
3Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body. 4Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 5Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:20
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

1 Corinthians 6:9
Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

1 Corinthians 6:18
Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:38
Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well: and he that giveth her not doth better.

Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,

Galatians 5:21
Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

Lexicon
Marriage
γάμος (gamos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 1062: A marriage, wedding, wedding-ceremony; plur: a wedding-feast. Of uncertain affinity; nuptials.

should be honored
Τίμιος (Timios)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 5093: Of great price, precious, honored.

by
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

all
πᾶσιν (pasin)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

marriage bed
κοίτη (koitē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2845: From keimai; a couch; by extension, cohabitation; by implication, the male sperm.

kept undefiled,
ἀμίαντος (amiantos)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 283: Undefiled, untainted, free from contamination. Unsoiled, i.e. pure.

for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

God
Θεός (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

will judge
κρινεῖ (krinei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2919: Properly, to distinguish, i.e. Decide; by implication, to try, condemn, punish.

the sexually immoral
πόρνους (pornous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 4205: A fornicator, man who prostitutes himself. From pernemi; a prostitute, i.e. a debauchee.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

adulterers.
μοιχοὺς (moichous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3432: An adulterer, that is, a man who is guilty with a married woman. Perhaps a primary word; a paramour; figuratively, apostate.


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

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

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

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

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

Let marriage be had in honour 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.

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; 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.

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