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

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Bible References

Marriage

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

So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

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, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.

Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

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

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

And the bed

that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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

"You shall not commit adultery.

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

And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

"If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

Let all that you do be done in love.