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

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh.

He must take a wife who is a virgin.

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe. (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh district.) They stated their business,

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

I then had sexual relations with the prophetess; she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord told me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz,

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?

The overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

And the bed

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

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

General references

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

"You shall not commit adultery.

and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.

You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

What then would be one's lot from God above, one's heritage from the Almighty on high?

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

Everything you do should be done in love.