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Hebrews 13:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.


Now the works of the flesh are obvious:  sexual immorality,  moral impurity,  promiscuity,


envy,  , drunkenness, carousing,  and anything similar. I am warning you about these things #– #as I warned you before #– #that those who practise such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.


Don’t you know that the unrighteous  will not inherit God’s kingdom?  Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters,  adulterers,  or males who have sex with males,  ,


God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.   ,


For know and recognise this: Every sexually immoral  or impure  or greedy  person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom  of Christ and of God.


Deacons are to be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently.


He must manage his own household competently and have his children under control with all dignity.


So, then, he who marries his fiancée does well, but he who does not marry will do better.


So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,  and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.


Outside are the dogs,   the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.


An elder  must be blameless,  the husband of one wife, with faithful  children who are not accused of wildness or rebellion.


Therefore, I want younger women to marry,  have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.


They forbid marriage  and demand abstinence  from foods that God created  to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.


For we must all appear before the judgement seat  of Christ,  so that each may be repaid  for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.


Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife  like the other apostles,  the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?


‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.


An overseer,  therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible,  respectable, hospitable,  able to teach,


I was then intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said to me, ‘Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz,


So  the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the prophetess  Huldah, wife of Shallum son of Tikvah,  son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District.  They spoke with her.


And make sure that there isn’t any immoral  or irreverent  person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal.


You are not to have sexual intercourse with  your neighbour’s wife, defiling yourself with her.


‘If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.


Flee  sexual immorality! Every other sin  a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral  sins against his own body.


This means one must not transgress against and take advantage  of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offences, as we also previously told and warned you.


If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.


For it is a fire that consumes down to Abaddon; it would destroy my entire harvest.





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