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Berean Standard Bible

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

Hebrews 13:4

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Chapter 13 closes Hebrews with short, practical commands about the daily life of the church: love among believers, hospitality, care for prisoners, and contentment. This verse is one of those instructions.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

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

World English Bible (WEB)

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

King James Version (KJV)

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

American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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

Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

Honroso es en todos el matrimonio, y el lecho sin mancilla; mas á los fornicarios y á los adúlteros juzgará Dios.

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

Todos deben respetar el matrimonio y ser fieles en sus relaciones matrimoniales, porque Dios juzgará a los adúlteros y a todos los que cometen inmoralidades sexuales.

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