Hebrews 13:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Hebrews 13:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Proverbs 5:15-23
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. …
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 7:2-16
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. …
Genesis 1:27-28
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. …

Topics

Adultery Commandments Copulation Crime Fornication Harlot (prostitute)Harlotry Lasciviousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-17)

The design of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Now the apostle calls the believing Hebrews to the performance of many excellent duties, in which it becomes Christians to excel. I. To brotherly love (Heb. 13:1), by which he does not only mean a general affection to all men, as our brethren by nature, all made of the same bl…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. is, &c.--Translate, “Let marriage be treated as honorable”: as He 13:5 also is an exhortation. in all--“in the case of all men”: “among all.” “To avoid fornication let EVERY MAN have his own wife” (1Co 7:2). Judaism and Gnosticism combined were soon about to throw discredit on marriage. The venerable Paphnutius, in the Council of Nice, quoted this verse for the justification of the married stat…