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

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

And LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept. And [God] took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in place of it.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quart

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

And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then LORD said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.

And the bed

lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.

General references

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

Thou shall not commit adultery.

And if any man lays with her, and her impurity be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lays shall be unclean.

And thou shall not lay carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

If a man be found laying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel.

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

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

Let all things of you be done in love.