Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored by everyone and the marriage bed kept pure, because God will judge sexual immorality. It affirms God's high regard for marital faithfulness.

Cross-references · 27

• Gen 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
• Prov 5:15–23Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
• 1 Cor 7:2–16But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
• Gal 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• Gen 1:27–28So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
• Gal 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 Cor 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,
• Col 3:5–6Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• 1 Cor 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
• Eph 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 Tim 3:4An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
• Gen 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 Tim 3:12A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
• Mal 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 their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• 1 Cor 7:38So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
• 1 Cor 9:5Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
• 1 Tim 4:3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
• 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.
• 2 Cor 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
• 1 Tim 5:14So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
• Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Lev 21:13–15The woman he marries must be a virgin.
• 1 Tim 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
• Isa 8:3And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
• 2 Kgs 22:14So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
• Ps 50:16–22To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
• Heb 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

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