4Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.


In Context

1 Let brotherly love continue.

2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for by this some have entertained angels unawares.

3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.

5 Let your manner of life be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.

Hebrews 13:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:4Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:4Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:4Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:4Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:4Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:4Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:4honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:4Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.