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Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ΤίμιοςTimiosHonorable [let]G5093 →
ὁho<the>G3588 →
γάμοςgamosmarriage [be]G1062 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
πᾶσινpasinallG3956 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
ἡhētheG3588 →
κοίτηkoitēmarriage bedG2845 →
ἀμίαντος·amiantosundefiled;G283 →
πόρνουςpornous[the] sexually immoralG4205 →
γὰρgarforG1063 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
μοιχοὺςmoichousadulterersG3432 →
κρινεῖkrineiwill judgeG2919 →
ὁho<the>G3588 →
θεός.¶theosGod.G2316 →

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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.Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.Proverbs 5:15–23Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.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.Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;1 Thessalonians 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;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.1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.Matthew 19:6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”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.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 Thessalonians 4:6and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching1 Timothy 3:12A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

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