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 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
• Prov 5:15–23Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
• 1 Cor 7:2–16But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
• Gal 5:19Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• Gen 1:27–28God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
• Gal 5:21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
• 1 Cor 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• Col 3:5–6Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 1 Cor 5:13But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”
• Eph 5:5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
• 1 Tim 3:4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
• Gen 2:21Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
• 1 Tim 3:12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
• Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• 1 Cor 7:38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
• 1 Cor 9:5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
• 1 Tim 4:3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
• Titus 1:6if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
• 2 Cor 5:10For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
• 1 Tim 5:14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
• Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Lev 21:13–15“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.
• 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• Isa 8:3I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’
• 2 Kgs 22:14So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
• Ps 50:16–22But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
• Heb 12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

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