Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
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.
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
3 Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body. 4 Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. 5 Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,
Galatians 5:21
envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 5:13
Expel that wicked man from among you.
1 Corinthians 7:2-16
but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:38
So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.
1 Corinthians 9:5
Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.
Ephesians 5:5
For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Colossians 3:5-6
So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 3:4
he should be a man who rules his own household well, and keeps his children ever under control and thoroughly well behaved.
1 Timothy 3:12
Let deacons be the husband of but one wife, men who rule their children and their household properly.
1 Timothy 4:3
who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 5:14
It is my wish, then, that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule their houses, and give no occasion to our adversary for railing.
Titus 1:6
men who are blameless, the husband of one wife, with believing children who are not accused of riot or insubordination.
Hebrews 12:16
Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.
Revelation 22:15
Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.
1 Timothy 3:2
The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;