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Brotherly Love

Hebrews 13:4

In 9 translations

BSB
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
KJV
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
WEB
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
ASV
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
LSV
The marriage [is to be] honored by all, and the bed undefiled, for God will judge whoremongers and adulterers.
YLT
honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
DBY
[Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.Elohim
DRC
Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
GNV
Mariage is honorable among all, and the bed vndefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge.

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read γὰρ (“for”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read δὲ (“now”).
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  • SBLGNT: γὰρ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read γὰρ; Robinson–Pierpont read δὲ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσιν καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος, πόρνους γὰρ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ θεός.
RP2018
Τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσιν, καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος· πόρνους δὲ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ θεός.
TR-Boyd
Τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσι, καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος· πόρνους δὲ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός.
SCR1894
τιμιος ο γαμος εν πασιν και η κοιτη αμιαντος πορνους δε και μοιχους κρινει ο θεος

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
  • Proverbs 5:15–23Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with…
  • 1 Corinthians 7:2–16But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife…
  • Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
  • Genesis 1:27–28So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the…
  • Galatians 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
  • 1 Corinthians 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
  • Colossians 3:5–6Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
  • Ephesians 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
  • 1 Timothy 3:12A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
  • Genesis 2:21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
  • 1 Corinthians 7:38So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
  • 1 Timothy 3:4An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
  • Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of…
  • Titus 1:6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

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