Hebrews 13:4
Good News Translation
Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

New Revised Standard Version
Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Contemporary English Version
Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage.

New American Bible
Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Marriage.

Genesis 1:27,28 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. . . .

Genesis 2:21,24 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. . . .

Leviticus 21:13-15 He shall take a virgin unto his wife. . . .

2 Kings 22:14 So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Sapham, and Asaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of Thecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in Jerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her.

Proverbs 5:15-23 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. . . .

Isaiah 8:3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey.

1 Corinthians 7:2 But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

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1 Corinthians 9:5 Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

1 Timothy 3:2,4,12 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, . . .

1 Timothy 5:14 I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

Titus 1:6 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.

and the bed.

Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

Galatians 5:19,21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, . . .

Ephesians 5:5 For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Colossians 3:5,6 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

God.

Psalm 50:16-22 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? . . .

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Corinthians 5:13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

Context
Brotherly Love
3Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body. 4Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 5Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:20
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

1 Corinthians 6:9
Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

1 Corinthians 6:18
Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:38
Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well: and he that giveth her not doth better.

Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,

Galatians 5:21
Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

Hebrews 13:3
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