希伯来书 13:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

人人都應該尊重婚姻，婚床也不要玷污，因為　神一定審判淫亂的和姦淫的人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
婚 姻 ， 人 人 都 当 尊 重 ， 床 也 不 可 污 秽 ； 因 为 苟 合 行 淫 的 人 ， 神 必 要 审 判 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. ² Remember to welcome strangers, because some who have done this have welcomed angels without knowing it. ³ Remember those who are in prison as if you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering as if you were suffering with them. ⁴ Marriage should be honored by everyone, and husband and wife should keep their marriage pure. God will judge as guilty those who take part in sexual sins. ⁵ Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never abandon you." Deuteronomy 31:6 ⁶ So we can be sure when we say, "I will not be afraid, because the Lord is my helper. People can't do anything to me." Psalm 118:6 ⁷ Remember your leaders who taught God's message to you. Remember how they lived and died, and copy their faith. ⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ⁹ Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Your hearts should be strengthened by God's grace, not by obeying rules about foods, which do not help those who obey them. ¹⁰ We have a sacrifice, but the priests who serve in the Holy Tent cannot eat from it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Marriage: Genesis 1:27, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:21, Genesis 2:24, Leviticus 21:13-15, 2 Kings 22:14, Proverbs 5:15-23, Isaiah 8:3, 1 Corinthians 7:2-16, 1 Corinthians 9:5, 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:4, 1 Timothy 3:12, 1 Timothy 5:14, Titus 1:6

and the bed: Hebrews 12:16, 1 Corinthians 6:9, Galatians 5:19, Galatians 5:21, Ephesians 5:5, Colossians 3:5, Colossians 3:6, Revelation 22:15

God: Psalms 50:16-22, Malachi 3:5, 1 Corinthians 5:13, 2 Corinthians 5:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:22 - brought Genesis 12:15 - taken Genesis 12:17 - General Genesis 20:7 - surely Genesis 20:9 - a great Genesis 34:7 - thing Genesis 39:9 - how then Exodus 20:14 - General Leviticus 15:18 - unclean Leviticus 15:24 - General Leviticus 18:20 - General Numbers 5:16 - set her Numbers 5:18 - the priest Deuteronomy 22:22 - General Ruth 4:10 - ye are witnesses 2 Samuel 11:27 - displeased Job 31:2 - General Job 31:12 - General Psalms 50:18 - hast been partaker Proverbs 5:11 - thou Proverbs 5:22 - sins Proverbs 6:32 - destroyeth Jeremiah 5:7 - they then Jeremiah 23:10 - full Ezekiel 18:6 - neither hath defiled Ezekiel 22:11 - committed Matthew 8:14 - wife's Matthew 19:6 - God Mark 10:11 - Whosoever Luke 20:34 - marry John 2:1 - a marriage John 2:2 - the marriage John 4:18 - is not Acts 15:20 - fornication 1 Corinthians 6:18 - Flee 1 Corinthians 7:28 - thou hast 1 Corinthians 7:38 - doeth well 1 Corinthians 16:14 - General 2 Corinthians 12:21 - uncleanness Ephesians 5:3 - fornication 1 Thessalonians 4:3 - that 1 Thessalonians 4:4 - honour 1 Timothy 1:10 - whoremongers 1 Timothy 4:3 - Forbidding 2 Peter 2:10 - that Revelation 2:14 - to commit Revelation 21:8 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

Genesis 13:1
So Abram, his wife, and Lot left Egypt, taking everything they owned, and traveled to southern Canaan.

Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold.

Genesis 13:3
He left southern Canaan and went back to Bethel where he had camped before, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13:7
so Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen began to argue. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at this time.

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, because we are brothers.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord .

Psalms 26:8
Lord , I love the Temple where you live, where your glory is.

Psalms 84:10
One day in the courtyards of your Temple is better than a thousand days anywhere else. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the Temple of my God than live in the homes of the wicked.

Psalms 107:1
Thank the Lord because he is good. His love continues forever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Marriage is honourable in all,.... Some read these words as an exhortation, "let" it "be so"; others as an assertion, it is so. "Marriage" is the union of one man and one woman in wedlock, whereby they become one flesh; it is a joining together of male and female in this relation, and of two only, and of such as are not within the degrees of blood forbid by the law, Leviticus 18:6 and of such as are fit for marriage: and this is "honourable", as it was instituted by God, and has been honoured with the presence of Christ, Genesis 2:22. And it is so in the ends of it, being to procreate children, multiply the earth, build up families, preserve a legitimate offspring, and prevent fornication and all uncleanness; and it is so, when the duties of the relation are performed on both sides: and it is honourable "in all"; in all things, in all respects, upon all accounts; "every way", as the Arabic version renders it; or as the Ethiopic version, "everywhere"; it has been honourably esteemed of among all nations; it becomes persons of all ranks and degrees, quality, and order; and it is honourable in all that are lawfully married, and do not violate the marriage contract, or defile the marriage bed: hereby are condemned such who despise marriage, that they may give a loose to their wandering and insatiable lusts; and such who, under a pretence of greater sanctity and perfection, reject it as unlawful; and the Papists, who deny it to men employed in sacred work:

and the bed undefiled: the Arabic version reads, "his bed"; and the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, "their bed"; the bed of such whose marriage is honourable; which is not polluted by admitting others into it, or by acts of fornication and adultery: "but", or "for", as the Alexandrian copy reads,

whoremongers and adulterers God will judge; the former of these may be rendered "fornicators", as it is by the Vulgate Latin version: fornication is a sin committed by single persons, unmarried ones; and though it was reckoned among the Gentiles a thing indifferent, yet is contrary to the law of God, and is a work of the flesh, and makes unfit for the kingdom of God, and brings down the judgments of God both here and hereafter. And this is in opposition to marriage, which is appointed to prevent it. The sin "adulterers" are guilty of, is a sin committed by persons, who are either one or both in a married state, and so is directly a pollution of the marriage bed: this was punishable with death by the law of God, and light of nature; and though men may make light of it, God will judge and punish such as commit it, both in this life, with diseases, poverty, and disgrace, and in the world to come, at the great day of account; for however secretly it may be committed, God, who is omniscient, sees it, and will bring it into judgment; nor shall any be able to escape the righteous judgment of God, for he is omnipotent, as well as omniscient. The Jews say,

"whoever lies with another man's wife, shall not escape

דינה, "the judgment", or damnation of hell t''

t T. Bab. Sota. fol. 4. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Marriage is honorable in all - The object here is to state that “honor” is to be shown to the marriage relation. It is not to be undervalued by the pretence of the superior purity of a state of celibacy, as if marriage were improper for any class of people or any condition of life; and it should not be dishonored by any violation of the marriage contract. The course of things has shown that there was abundant reason for the apostle to assert with emphasis, that “marriage was an honorable condition of life.” There has been a constant effort made to show that celibacy was a more holy state; that there was something in marriage that rendered it “dishonorable” for those who are in the ministry, and for those of either sex who would be eminently pure. This sentiment has been the cause of more abomination in the world than any other single opinion claiming to have a religious sanction. It is one of the supports on which the Papal system rests, and has been one of the principal upholders of all the corruptions in monasteries and nunneries. The apostle asserts, without any restriction or qualification, that marriage is honorable in all; and this proves that it is lawful for the ministers of religion to marry, and that the whole doctrine of the superior purity of a state of celibacy is false; see this subject examined in the notes on 1 Corinthians 7:0.

And the bed undefiled - Fidelity to the marriage vow.

But whore mongers and adulterers God will judge - All licentiousness of life, and all violations of the marriage covenant, will be severely punished by God; see the notes on 1 Corinthians 6:9. The sins here referred to prevailed everywhere, and hence, there was the more propriety for the frequent and solemn injunctions to avoid them which we find in the Scriptures.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 13:4. Marriage is honourable in all — Let this state be highly esteemed as one of God's own instituting, and as highly calculated to produce the best interests of mankind. This may have been said against the opinions of the Essenes, called Therapeutae, who held marriage in little repute, and totally abstained from it themselves as a state of comparative imperfection. At the same time it shows the absurdity of the popish tenet, that marriage in the clergy is both dishonourable and sinful; which is, in fact, in opposition to the apostle, who says marriage is honourable in ALL; and to the institution of God, which evidently designed that every male and female should be united in this holy bond; and to nature, which in every part of the habitable world has produced men and women in due proportion to each other.

The bed undefiled — Every man cleaving to his own wife, and every wife cleaving to her own husband, because God will judge, i.e. punish, all fornicators and adulterers.

Instead of δε but, γαρ, for, is the reading of AD*, one other, with the Vulgate, Coptic, and one of the Itala; it more forcibly expresses the reason of the prohibition: Let the bed be undefiled, FOR whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.