Parallel Verses
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.
A Conservative Version
Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
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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and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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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
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Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
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,
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Galatians 5:21
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Genesis 1:27-28
So 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 hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Proverbs 5:15-23
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
Genesis 2:21
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.
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, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.
Psalm 50:16-22
But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
Isaiah 8:3
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;
Malachi 3:5
"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
1 Corinthians 5:13
God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
1 Corinthians 7:2-16
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:38
So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.
1 Corinthians 9:5
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?
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Ephesians 5:5
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.
Colossians 3:5-6
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 3:4
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
1 Timothy 3:12
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
1 Timothy 4:3
who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 5:14
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
Titus 1:6
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.
Hebrews 12:16
that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
1 Timothy 3:2
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,