Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Holman Bible
Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.
International Standard Version
Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.
American Standard Version
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Amplified
Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
An Understandable Version
Marriage should be considered honorable among all people and its sexual responsibilities should be faithfully kept. For God will judge [and condemn] those people who are sexually immoral and who are sexually unfaithful to their mates.
Anderson New Testament
Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.
Bible in Basic English
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
Common New Testament
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.
Darby Translation
Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
Godbey New Testament
Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Goodspeed New Testament
Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.
John Wesley New Testament
Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Julia Smith Translation
Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
King James 2000
Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
Modern King James verseion
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.
Moffatt New Testament
Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.
Montgomery New Testament
Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
NET Bible
Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
New Heart English Bible
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Noyes New Testament
Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Sawyer New Testament
Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
The Emphasized Bible
Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
Webster
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.
Weymouth New Testament
Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Williams New Testament
Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage relations kept sacred. Persons who are sexually vicious and immoral God will punish.
World English Bible
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Worrell New Testament
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Worsley New Testament
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Youngs Literal Translation
honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
Themes
Adultery » Adulterers and adulteresses
Honor » What is honorable in all
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Hebrews 13:4
Prayers for Hebrews 13:4
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Concluding Ethical Instructions
3 Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body. 4 Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers. 5 The Way of life is to be without love of money, being content with the things that are present, for he has said, I will, no, not leave thee, and also, I will, no, not forsake thee.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
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,
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
Galatians 5:21
envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Genesis 1:27-28
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.
Proverbs 5:15-23
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Genesis 2:21
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.
Leviticus 21:13-15
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
2 Kings 22:14
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
Psalm 50:16-22
But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,
Isaiah 8:3
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.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f
1 Corinthians 5:13
But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.
1 Corinthians 7:2-16
But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:38
And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.
1 Corinthians 9:5
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?
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.
Ephesians 5:5
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.
Colossians 3:5-6
Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 3:4
a man who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all propriety
1 Timothy 3:12
Let helpers be husbands of one wife, ruling children and their own houses well.
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 5:14
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.
Titus 1:6
if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.
Hebrews 12:16
lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.
Revelation 22:15
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.
1 Timothy 3:2
The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,