Hebrews 13:4

Hebrews chapter 13 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

v.4This passage

v.5Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 3:2

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

  • Leviticus 21:13

    And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • 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.

  • Genesis 1:27

    And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  • 1 Timothy 3:12

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