Verse Comparison: Hebrews 13:4
American Standard Version
`Let' marriage `be' had in honor among all, and `let' the bed `be' undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Amplified® Bible
Let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge {and} punish the unchaste [all guilty of sexual vice] and adulterous.
Contemporary English Version
Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage.
Darby English Version
[Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
Good News Bible
Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
International Standard Version
Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.
King James Version
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
New American Standard Bible
Marriage {is to be held} in honor among all, and the {marriage} bed {is to be} undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
New International Version
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
New King James Version
Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
4All shall hold marriage in honor among all, and the marriage bed should remain undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Young's Literal Translation
honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
