Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body. 4 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. 5 Do not let your conduct be ruled by the love of money. Be content with what you have, for God himself has said-- 'I will never forsake you, nor will I ever abandon you.'
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,
Galatians 5:19
The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,
Galatians 5:21
Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 5:13
While God judges those who are outside? 'Put away the wicked man from among you.'
1 Corinthians 7:2-16
But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:38
In short, the one who consents to his daughter's marriage is doing right, and yet the other will be doing better.
1 Corinthians 9:5
Have not we a right to take a wife with us, if she is a Christian, as the other Apostles and the Master's brothers and Kephas all do?
2 Corinthians 5:10
For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions--whether good or worthless.
Ephesians 5:5
For of this you may be sure--that no one who is unchaste or impure or greedy of gain (for to be greedy of gain is idolatry) has any place awaiting him in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
Colossians 3:5-6
Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 3:4
he should be a man who rules his own household well, and whose children are kept under control and are well-behaved.
1 Timothy 3:12
Assistant-Officers should be faithful husbands, and men who rule their children and their households well.
1 Timothy 4:3
and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth.
1 Timothy 5:14
Therefore I advise young widows to marry, bear children, and attend to their homes, and so avoid giving the enemy an opportunity for scandal.
Titus 1:6
They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.
Hebrews 12:16
Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
Revelation 22:15
Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'
1 Timothy 3:2
The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher,