Hebrews 13:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge and punish the unchaste [all guilty of sexual vice] and adulterous.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Common English Bible

⁴ Marriage must be honored in every respect, with no cheating on the relationship, because God will judge the sexually immoral person and the person who commits adultery.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:4 Cross References

Genesis 2:21

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

2 Kings 22:14

So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto 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 quarter;) and they communed with her.

Job 31:12

For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

Isaiah 8:3

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Leviticus 15:18

The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

Leviticus 18:20

And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

1 Corinthians 5:13

whereas them that are without God judgeth? Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

1 Corinthians 7:38

So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all be made manifest before the judgement-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Galatians 5:21

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they which practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:5

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

1 Timothy 3:12

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

1 Timothy 3:2

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, soberminded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1 Timothy 3:4

one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none occasion to the adversary for reviling:

Titus 1:6

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

Revelation 22:15

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.