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Hebrews 13:4

First Nations Version

Marriage is honorable, and the marriage bed is pure, but Creator will decide the guilt of all who are sexually impure and unfaithful in marriage.

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We all know the things our weak and broken human ways lead us to do, things such as walking in impure ways, giving in to dark desires,


Our broken ways also lead us to want what belongs to others, to become drunks, and to participate in wild parties. It is things like this that I am warning you about. For I have already warned you that the ones who walk in these ways will not share in the blessings of Creator’s good road.


Do you not know that the ones who wrong and cheat each other will not share in the blessings of Creator’s good road? Do not let anyone mislead you. Anyone who walks an impure path of uncontrolled desires, or anyone who prays to spirit-images, or any who are unfaithful in marriage, or weak men who let other men use them for sex, or any who abuse the sacred gift of sex with each other.


It is up to the Great Spirit to judge the ones on the outside. So then, you must remove the one who has done this evil from among you.


Listen closely, no one who walks an impure path of uncontrolled desires participates in the good road of the Chosen One and the Great Spirit. The ones who walk in this way follow lying spirits that take them down a dark path, far from the sacred ways of the Great Spirit.


These sacred servants must also be faithful in marriage and guide their own families in a good way.


These elders must guide their own families in a good way, having children who are respectful and well-behaved.


So the one who marries has done a good thing, and the one who does not marry is doing even better.


Outside the gates are wild-dog people, bad-medicine people, the sexually impure, those who murder, the ones who pray to spirit-images, and all who love to speak lies.


These spiritual leaders must be free from accusation, faithful in marriage, and have children who are not wild and rebellious, but respectful followers of our spiritual ways.


That is why I want the younger widows to get married, have children, and take good care of their own families. Then the enemy will have nothing to say against them.


They stop people from getting married and tell people to stay away from eating certain kinds of foods. These foods were created by the Great Spirit to be received with grateful hearts by those who trust in and know the truth.


For we must all stand before the council seat of the Chosen One and give an answer for what we have done in these earthly bodies—whether good or bad. Then the Chosen One will give back to each of us the honor that is due.


Do we not have the right to travel with a wife, as do the other message bearers, such as the brothers of our Honored Chief and Stands on the Rock (Cephas)?


Elders like this must be free from accusation, faithful in marriage, clear-minded, self-controlled, honorable, welcoming to strangers, and able to teach others.


See that no one becomes an impure or unspiritual person like Hairy Man (Esau), who for a single meal traded away his family birthright.


Run away from these kinds of impure desires. No other broken human ways affect the body in this way. The ones who treat sex in this manner are going against Creator’s purpose for their own bodies.


No one should abuse a sacred family member in this manner, for our Honored Chief will punish those who do, just as we have already solemnly warned you.





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