Hebrews 13:4

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Hebrews 13:4

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

Marriage

And the bed

General references

Bible References

Marriage

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

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place;

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

So Hilkiah, the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asahiah went unto Huldah, the prophetess, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in Jerusalem in the house of doctrine; and they spoke with her.

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

And I went unto the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

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

Do we not have authority to bring with us a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles and as the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

It is expedient, therefore, that the bishop be blameless, the husband of only one wife, vigilant, temperate, of worldly affections mortified, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

I desire therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, govern the house, giving no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

He who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who can not be accused of dissoluteness, nor insubordinate.

And the bed

lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

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

For this ye know, that no fornicator nor unclean person nor covetous man, who is also an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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

But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.

General references

But the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And if any man sleeps with her and her uncleanness comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and any bed upon which he sleeps shall be unclean.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, contaminating thyself with her.

If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman and the woman; so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

For what reward would God give me from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

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

Let all your things be done with charity.