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The laxity of morals among Gentiles (Note on <a href="/acts/15-20.htm" title="But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.">Acts 15:20</a>) and the prevalence of divorce amongst Jews (<a href="/matthew/5-32.htm" title="But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.">Matthew 5:32</a>) explain the sudden introduction of such warnings: of these sinners the all-seeing God will be the judge. (Comp. <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm" title="That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.">1Thessalonians 4:6</a>.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/hebrews/13.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm" title="Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.">Hebrews 13:4</a></span>. <span class="ital">Marriage is honourable in, </span>or for, <span class="ital">all </span>sorts of persons, clergy as well as laity, though the Romanists teach otherwise; <span class="ital">and the bed undefiled</span> — Consistent with the highest purity. For who can imagine that God would make any thing morally evil absolutely necessary for the support of the human race in future generations? <span class="ital">But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge </span>— That is, punish, and frequently does so in a very awful manner, even in the present world; though they frequently escape punishment from men. The distinction between these two characters, <span class="ital">whoremongers </span>and <span class="ital">adulterers, </span>is well known to be this: that the former are single persons who have unlawful converse with one another, and the latter are those who are both, or at least one of them, in a married state. The sin of the first is <span class="ital">fornication, </span>of the other <span class="ital">adultery; </span>although the word <span class="greekheb">πορνεια</span>, <span class="ital">fornication, </span>may sometimes be used to denote any uncleanness, and so to comprise adultery also.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/hebrews/13.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>13:1-6 The design of Christ in giving himself for us, is, that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. Here are earnest exhortations to several Christian duties, especially contentment. The sin opposed to this grace and duty is covetousness, an over-eager desire for the wealth of this world, with envy of those who have more than ourselves. Having treasures in heaven, we may be content with mean things here. Those who cannot be so, would not be content though God raised their condition. Adam was in paradise, yet not contented; some angels in heaven were not contented; but the apostle Paul, though abased and empty, had learned in every state, in any state, to be content. Christians have reason to be contented with their present lot. This promise contains the sum and substance of all the promises; I will never, no, never leave thee, no, never forsake thee. In the original there are no less than five negatives put together, to confirm the promise: the true believer shall have the gracious presence of God with him, in life, at death, and for ever. Men can do nothing against God, and God can make all that men do against his people, to turn to their good.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/hebrews/13.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>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 <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/7.htm">1 Corinthians 7</a>.<p>And the bed undefiled - Fidelity to the marriage vow.<p>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 <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9</a>. 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. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/hebrews/13.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>4. is, &c.—Translate, "Let marriage be treated as honorable": as Heb 13:5 also is an exhortation.<p>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 state. If one does not himself marry, he should not prevent others from doing so. Others, especially Romanists, translate, "in all things," as in Heb 13:18. But the warning being against lasciviousness, the contrast to "whoremongers and adulterers" in the parallel clause, requires the "in all" in this clause to refer to persons.<p>the bed undefiled—Translate, as Greek requires "undefiled" to be a predicate, not an epithet, "And let the bed be undefiled."<p>God will judge—Most whoremongers escape the notice of human tribunals; but God takes particular cognizance of those whom man does not punish. Gay immoralities will then be regarded in a very different light from what they are now.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/hebrews/13.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">Marriage is honourable in all:</span> the next duty charged on the subjects of Christ’s kingdom, is chastity; the commendation of it is a precept to it. Marriage is that state which God instituted at the beginning, after the creation of Adam and Eve, which was by his law the making of them two to become one flesh, <span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/2-24.htm" title="Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall join to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.">Genesis 2:24</a></span>; confirmed by Christ, <span class="bld"><a href="/matthew/19-5.htm" title="And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall join to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?">Matthew 19:5</a></span>. On this state God, the fountain of all honour, hath stamped his own name and excellence, and hath made it, by an irreversible law, a glorious and honourable state. The connection is present, real, and necessary; God saith it, therefore it is so, and must be so; and this after God’s institution in all its concomitants every where, and in all times; but especially in all persons in the kingdom of Christ, true Christians of all sorts and degrees, of what state or calling soever, qualified for and called to it, whether magistrates, ministers, or church members; God by it preventing sin, preserving holy and pure communion between the married, propagating his church, and accomplishing the number of his chosen by it, <span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/111-3.htm" title="His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endures for ever.">Psalm 111:3</a> <a href="/malachi/2-15.htm" title="And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.">Malachi 2:15</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-9.htm" title="But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.">1 Corinthians 7:9</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm" title="For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:">1 Thessalonians 4:3</a>,4 <a href="/1_peter/3-1.htm" title="Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;">1 Peter 3:1</a>,7</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">And the bed undefiled; </span> a good, moral use of the marriage bed, the natural and lawful use of the wife by the husband, and of the husband by the wife, according to the law of God; which is so far from being unclean, filthy, and inconsistent with the purity of Christ, as papists, apostates from the faith, assert, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/1_timothy/4-1.htm" title="Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;...">1 Timothy 4:1-4</a></span>, that it is holy, pure, and chaste in itself, and a most excellent means of preserving chastity among the subjects of Christ’s kingdom, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm" title="That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;">1 Thessalonians 4:4</a> <a href="/titus/2-5.htm" title="To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.">Titus 2:5</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-2.htm" title="While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.">1 Peter 3:2</a></span>; by this they are kept in their bodies from being polluted or dishonoured by fornication or adultery. Marriage is thus honourable in all husbands and wives, of what degree or order soever, whilst they are such; and must be undefiled in all, because their bodies are the members of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm" title="Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.">1 Corinthians 6:15</a>,17-20</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge; </span> but God hates unclean societies of all men and women, but especially of Christians; and as he will certainly judge, and inflict eternal punishment upon, all kind of unclean persons, so especially upon whoremongers and adulterers who profess themselves subjects of Christ’s pure kingdom, <span class="bld"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm" title="And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;">2 Peter 2:6</a> <a href="/judges/1-4.htm" title="And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.">Judges 1:4</a>,7 Re 2:21</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/hebrews/13.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>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, <a href="/leviticus/18-6.htm">Leviticus 18:6</a> 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, <a href="/genesis/2-22.htm">Genesis 2:22</a>. 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: <p>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, <p>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, <p>"whoever lies with another man's wife, shall not escape "the judgment", or damnation of hell (t)'' <p>(t) T. Bab. Sota. fol. 4. 2.<a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/hebrews/13.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{2}</span> Marriage <i>is</i> honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.</span><p>(2) He commends chaste matrimony in all sorts of men, and threatens utter destruction from God against whoremongers and adulterers.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/meyer/hebrews/13.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary</a></div><a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm" title="Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.">Hebrews 13:4</a>. Exhortation to chastity in the narrower sense.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">Τίμιος</span>] <span class="ital">held in estimation, honourable, sc</span>. <span class="greekheb">ἔστω</span>. Others supplement <span class="greekheb">ἐστίν</span>. So already the Peshito (honoratum est connubium inter omnes), then Beza, Grotius (apud omnes gentes moratas honos est conjugio), M‘Caul, and others. But against this stands the addition: <span class="greekheb">καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος</span>, since the latter could not be asserted as a truth in point of fact. Rather might the indicative rendering thereof be preserved by taking the clauses <span class="ital">descriptively</span>: “Marriage honourable in all things,” etc., which then would not be different in sense from the direct requirement that marriage should be honourable. Nevertheless, this mode of interpretation too—recently adopted by Delitzsch—could only be justified if it were followed by a long series of similar statements; here, on the other hand, where imperatives are placed in close proximity before and after, it is unnatural.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ὁ γάμος</span>] <span class="ital">marriage</span>. In this sense the word occurs frequently with the Greeks. In the N. T. it has everywhere else the signification: <span class="ital">wedding, and its celebration</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ἐν πᾶσιν</span>] is <span class="ital">neuter: in all things</span>. The majority take <span class="greekheb">ἐν πᾶσιν</span> as <span class="ital">masculine</span>. There is then found expressed in it the precept, either, as by Luther and others, that marriage should in the estimation of all be held in honour, <span class="ital">i.e.</span> not desecrated by adultery; or, as by Böhme, Schulz, and others, that it should not be despised or slighted by any unmarried person (according to Hofmann, by any one, whether he live in wedlock, or he think that he ought for his own part to decline it); or finally, as by Calvin and many, that it is to be denied to no order of men (as later to the Catholic priests). In the two last cases it is generally supposed that the reference is to a definite party of those who, out of ascetic or other interest, looked unfavourably upon the married life. But for all three modes of explanation, <span class="greekheb">παρὰ πᾶσιν</span> would have been more suitably written than <span class="greekheb">ἐν πᾶσιν</span>; and a preference for celibacy on the part of born Jews in particular, to whom nevertheless the Epistle to the Hebrews is addressed, is an unexplained presupposition, because one not in accordance with the teaching of history.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος</span>] <span class="ital">and the marriage bed</span> (against the ordinary <span class="ital">usus loquendi</span>, Valckenaer and Schulz: <span class="ital">the cohabitation</span>) <span class="ital">be undefiled</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">πόρνους γὰρ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός</span>] <span class="ital">for fornicators and adulterers will God judge</span> (condemn at the judgment of the world). Comp. <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm" title="Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,">1 Corinthians 6:9</a> f., <span class="ital">al</span>. The <span class="greekheb">ὁ Θεός</span> placed at the close of the sentence is not without emphasis. It reminds that, though such sins of uncleanness remain for the most part unpunished by earthly judges, the higher Judge will one day be mindful of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/hebrews/13.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm" title="Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.">Hebrews 13:4</a>. <span class="greekheb">τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσιν</span>. “Is <span class="greekheb">ἔστω</span> or <span class="greekheb">ἐστὶ</span> to be supplied?” Probably the former, as in <a href="/hebrews/13-5.htm" title="Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.">Hebrews 13:5</a>, “Let marriage be held in honour among all”. As a natural result of holding marriage in honour, its ideal sanctity will be violated neither by the married nor by the unmarried. Therefore the <span class="greekheb">καὶ</span> links the two clauses closely together and has some inferential force, “and thus let the bed be undefiled” [<span class="greekheb">μιαίνειν τὴν κοίτην</span> occurs in Plutarch to denote the violation of conjugal relations. Used with <span class="greekheb">γυναῖκα</span> in <a href="/ezekiel/18-6.htm" title="And has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a menstruous woman,">Ezekiel 18:6</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm" title="And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.">Ezekiel 23:17</a>]. The next clause shows in what sense the words are to be taken. William Penn’s saying must also be kept in view: “If a man pays his tailor but debauches his wife, is he a current moralist?” For marriage as a preventative against vice, <span class="ital">cf.</span> 1 Corinthians 7 and <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm" title="That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;">1 Thessalonians 4:4</a>. Weiss gathers from the insertion of this injunction that the writer is not guided in his choice of precepts by the condition of those to whom he is writing but by “theoretical reflection”. But in the face of <a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm" title="Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.">Hebrews 12:16</a>, this seems an unwarranted inference. <span class="greekheb">πόρνους</span> … <span class="greekheb">ὁ θεός</span>. Fornicators may escape human condemnation, but God (in emphatic position) will judge them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/hebrews/13.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">4</span>. <span class="ital">Marriage is honourable in all</span>] More probably this is an exhortation, “Let marriage be held honourable among all,” or rather “in all respects,” as in <a href="/hebrews/13-18.htm" title="Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.">Hebrews 13:18</a>. Scripture never gives even the most incidental sanction to the exaltation of celibacy as a superior virtue, or to the disparagement of marriage as an inferior state. Celibacy and marriage stand on an exactly equal level of honour according as God has called us to the one or the other state. The mediæval glorification of Monachism sprang partly from a religion of exaggerated gloom and terror, and partly from a complete misunderstanding of the sense applied by Jewish writers to the word “Virgins.” Nothing can be clearer than the teaching on this subject alike of the Old (<a href="/genesis/2-18.htm" title="And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.">Genesis 2:18</a>; <a href="/genesis/2-24.htm" title="Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall join to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.">Genesis 2:24</a>) and of the New Covenant (<a href="/context/matthew/19-4.htm" title="And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,...">Matthew 19:4-6</a>; <a href="/context/john/2-1.htm" title="And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:...">John 2:1-2</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm" title="Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.">1 Corinthians 7:2</a>). There is no “forbidding to marry” (<a href="/context/1_timothy/4-1.htm" title="Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;...">1 Timothy 4:1-3</a>) among Evangelists and Apostles. They shared the deep conviction which their nation had founded on <a href="/genesis/1-27.htm" title="So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.">Genesis 1:27</a>; <a href="/context/genesis/2-18.htm" title="And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him....">Genesis 2:18-24</a> and which our Lord had sanctioned (<a href="/context/matthew/19-4.htm" title="And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,...">Matthew 19:4-6</a>). The warning in this verse is against unchastity. If it be aimed against a tendency to disparage the married state it would shew that the writer is addressing some Hebrews who had adopted in this matter the prejudices of the Essenes (<a href="/1_timothy/4-3.htm" title="Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.">1 Timothy 4:3</a>). In any case the truth remains “<span class="ital">Honourable</span> is marriage in all;” it is only lawless passions which are “passions of dishonour” (<a href="/romans/1-26.htm" title="For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:">Romans 1:26</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">and the bed undefiled</span>] A warning to Antinomians who made light of unchastity (<a href="/acts/15-20.htm" title="But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.">Acts 15:20</a>; <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm" title="That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.">1 Thessalonians 4:6</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">whoremongers</span>] Christianity introduced a wholly new conception regarding the sin of fornication (<a href="/galatians/5-19.htm" title="Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,">Galatians 5:19</a>; <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm" title="Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.">Galatians 5:21</a>; <a href="/context/1_corinthians/6-9.htm" title="Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,...">1 Corinthians 6:9-10</a>; <a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm" title="For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.">Ephesians 5:5</a>; <a href="/context/colossians/3-5.htm" title=" Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:...">Colossians 3:5-6</a>; <a href="/revelation/22-15.htm" title="For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.">Revelation 22:15</a>) which, especially in the depraved decadence of Heathenism under the Empire, was hardly regarded as any sin at all. Hence the necessity for constantly raising a warning voice against it (<a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm" title="That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.">1 Thessalonians 4:6</a>, &c.).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">God will judge</span>] The more because they often escape altogether the judgment of man (<a href="/1_samuel/2-25.htm" title="If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding they listened not to the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.">1 Samuel 2:25</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/3-39.htm" title="And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.">2 Samuel 3:39</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/hebrews/13.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm" title="Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.">Hebrews 13:4</a>. <span class="greekheb">Τίμιος</span>) viz. <span class="greekheb">ἔστω</span>, comp. <a href="/hebrews/13-5.htm" title="Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.">Hebrews 13:5</a>, <span class="ital">i.e. let it be honoured</span>. It is an antithesis to <span class="ital">whoremongers</span>. He exhorts the unmarried, who are in great danger of falling into fornication, to marry, acknowledging it as something <span class="ital">precious</span> [so <span class="greekheb">τίμιος</span> often means], and worthily to use the good which it confers: comp. <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm" title="That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;">1 Thessalonians 4:4</a>.—<span class="greekheb">γάμος</span>) <span class="ital">marriage</span>.—<span class="greekheb">ἐν πᾶσι</span>) <span class="ital">in all</span>. There is obviously greater danger of fornication than of adultery; comp. <a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm" title="Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.">1 Corinthians 7:2</a>, <span class="greekheb">ἕκαστος</span>, <span class="ital">every one</span> [“To avoid fornication, let <span class="ital">every man</span> have his own wife”]; and all ought to value marriage highly, so that if a man does not enter into that state himself, he <span class="ital">should not prevent</span> others from doing so, <a href="/1_timothy/4-3.htm" title="Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.">1 Timothy 4:3</a>.—<span class="greekheb">ἡ κοίτη</span>) <span class="ital">the bed</span>, the couch, the state and use of marriage. <span class="ital">Marriage</span>—<span class="ital">the bed</span>—<span class="ital">whoremongers</span>—<span class="ital">adulterers:</span> a Chiasmus.—<span class="greekheb">ἀμίαντος</span>, <span class="ital">undefiled</span>) Supply again, <span class="ital">let</span>—<span class="ital">be</span>. An antithesis to <span class="ital">adulterers</span>.—<span class="greekheb">κρινεῖ ὁ Θεὸς</span>, GOD <span class="ital">will judge</span>) By far the greatest number of whoremongers and adulterers escape the notice of human tribunals. As such intrigues are not made known in the way in which they formerly were, <a href="/context/numbers/5-20.htm" title="But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband:...">Numbers 5:20-21</a>, a great number, although their conduct is well known, yet escape civil punishment and ecclesiastical discipline, or are made to feel it very slightly. [<span class="ital">Sometimes, indeed</span>, judges <span class="ital">themselves are whoremongers and adulterers, men that are placed in the highest ecclesiastical and political offices: and therefore they know how to take measures for their own impunity; but they also take measures for the impunity of others like themselves, when the case admits of it</span> (or when a case occurs). <span class="ital">Very many acts of this sort remain entirely concealed in the world, or are extenuated by various devices, or are upheld by violence</span>.—V. g.] <span class="ital">God will judge:</span> [<span class="ital">A thing dreadful to be spoken!</span> ch. <a href="/context/hebrews/10-30.htm" title="For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, said the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people....">Hebrews 10:30-31</a>.—V. g.]—He most of all punishes them, whom man does not punish. Comp. <a href="/2_samuel/3-39.htm" title="And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.">2 Samuel 3:39</a>. The apostle speaks of the judgment as near. [<span class="ital">At that greatest of all days, what deeds, I pray you, will be brought to light! Then indeed execrable</span> crimes <span class="ital">will no longer be reckoned as a mark</span> of polished manners.—V. g.]<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hebrews/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 4.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.</span> So in the A.V. the first clause of this verse, which is taken as an assertion, the copula <span class="greek">ἔστι</span>, being understood. So it is also taken by Chrysostom and other ancients. If so, it is a declaration, interposed among hortations, of the honorableness of the" estate of matrimony," with the hortatory purpose of suggesting this "remedy against sin "(as in <a href="/1_corinthians/7-9.htm">1 Corinthians 7:9</a>), or as a protest against false asceticism, such as is alluded to in <a href="/1_timothy/4-3.htm">1 Timothy 4:3</a>, "forbidding to marry." And certainly the expression, <span class="greek">τίμιος ὁ γάμος</span>, taken by itself, would most naturally have this meaning. But most modern commentators understand it as an exhortation, supplying <span class="greek">ἔστω</span>; and this for the following cogent reasons: it occurs in the midst of a series of exhortations, and is therefore more likely to be one; it is difficult to understand the connected clause, "and the bed undefiled (<span class="greek">καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος</span>)," as a statement; and the exactly similar phrase in ver. 5, <span class="greek">ἀφιλάργυρος ὁ τρόπος</span>, seems evidently hortatory. Hence we take it to mean "Let marriage <span class="accented">be</span> <span class="greek">τίμος ἐν πᾶσον</span>." Two questions remain - that of the import of <span class="greek">τίμιος</span>, and whether <span class="greek">πᾶσιν</span> is masculine or neuter. <span class="greek">Τίμιος</span> elsewhere, when applied to persons, means "held in honor" (as in <a href="/acts/5-34.htm">Acts 5:34</a>, of Gamaliel); when applied to things, it means "precious" (as in <a href="/1_corinthians/3-12.htm">1 Corinthians 3:12</a>; <a href="/revelation/17-4.htm">Revelation 17:4</a>; <a href="/revelation/18-12.htm">Revelation 18:12, 16</a>; <a href="/revelation/21-19.htm">Revelation 21:19</a>, of precious stones; in <a href="/1_peter/1-19.htm">1 Peter 1:19</a>, of the blood of the Lamb; <a href="/2_peter/1-4.htm">2 Peter 1:4</a>, of promises; <a href="/acts/20-24.htm">Acts 20:24</a>, of "my own life;" <a href="/james/5-7.htm">James 5:7</a>, of the fruit of the earth). Bengel explains thus: "Caelibes, quibus periculum scortationis imminet, hortatur ut matrimonium contrahant, tanquam <span class="accented">pretiosum</span> quiddam agnoscentes, ejusque bone digne utantur. Conf. <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:4</a>.' And, taking <span class="greek">πᾶσιν</span> as masculine, he explains further: "Omnesque debent matrimonium magni facere, ut, si quis eo ipse non utatur, alios tamen non prohibeat." According to this view the first clause is an injunction to all to appreciate marriage, the second warns those that are married against any violation of the bond: "<span class="greek">Τίμιος γάμος</span> antitheton ad scortatotes, <span class="greek">κοίτη ἀμίαντος</span> ad adulteros" (Bengel). But the more natural, and the usual, meaning of the common expression <span class="greek">ἐν πᾶσιν</span> is "in all things," not "among all persons" (cf. <span class="accented">Jaffa</span>, ver. 18; also <a href="/colossians/1-18.htm">Colossians 1:18</a>; <a href="/titus/2-9.htm">Titus 2:9</a>; <a href="/1_timothy/3-2.htm">1 Timothy 3:2</a>; <a href="/2_timothy/4-5.htm">2 Timothy 4:5</a>). If so here, <span class="greek">τίμιος ὁ γάμος</span> must be taken rather as an injunction with respect to the sanctity of marriage when contracted: "Let it be held in honor in all respects; in all ways reverently regarded as a holy bond;" the succeeding clause, <span class="greek">ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος</span>, being a further explication of the same idea (cf. <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:4</a>, "<span class="accented">That</span> every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel [meaning, probably, as seems to be required by the verb <span class="greek">κτᾶσθαι</span>, 'get to himself his own <span class="accented">wife</span>] in sanctification and <span class="accented">honor</span> (<span class="greek">ἐν ἀγιασμῷ καὶ</span> <span class="greek">τιμῇ</span>);" where <span class="greek">ἐν τιμῇ</span> may express the same ides as <span class="greek">τίμιος</span> in the text). 'In the conclusion of the verse "for" (<span class="greek">γὰρ</span>) suits the drift of the sentence as above understood, and is considered to be supported better than "but" (<span class="greek">δὲ</span>) of the Textus Receptus. Observe, lastly, that, in "God will judge," "God" is emphatic, being placed last. Though the kind of sin spoken of is lightly regarded among men, and may escape detection or punishment now, yet certainly <span class="accented">God</span> will judge it (cf. <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:6</a>, "God is the Avenger of all such, as we have also forewarned you and testified;" and <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9</a>, where fornicators and adulterers are included among those about whom Christians are not to deceive themselves, as though they would "inherit the kingdom of God"). Hebrews 13:4<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/hebrews/13.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>Marriage is honorable in all (τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσιν)<p>Γάμος everywhere else in N.T. a wedding or wedding feast, often in the plural, as <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-2.htm">Matthew 22:2</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-3.htm">Matthew 22:3</a>, <a href="/matthew/22-4.htm">Matthew 22:4</a>; <a href="/luke/12-36.htm">Luke 12:36</a>. Τίμιος honorable or held in honor. Often in N.T. precious, of gold, stones, etc., as <a href="/1_corinthians/3-12.htm">1 Corinthians 3:12</a>; <a href="/revelation/17-4.htm">Revelation 17:4</a>; <a href="/revelation/18-12.htm">Revelation 18:12</a>; of life, <a href="/acts/20-24.htm">Acts 20:24</a>; the fruits of the earth, <a href="/james/5-7.htm">James 5:7</a>; the blood of Christ, <a href="/1_peter/1-19.htm">1 Peter 1:19</a>; the divine promises, <a href="/2_peter/1-4.htm">2 Peter 1:4</a>. Rend. "let marriage be had in honor." The statement is hortatory, as suiting the character of the entire context, and especially the γὰρ for; "for whoremongers," etc. Ἑν πᾶσιν in all respects," as <a href="/1_timothy/3-11.htm">1 Timothy 3:11</a>; <a href="/2_timothy/4-5.htm">2 Timothy 4:5</a>; <a href="/titus/2-9.htm">Titus 2:9</a>; <a href="/colossians/1-18.htm">Colossians 1:18</a>; <a href="/philippians/4-12.htm">Philippians 4:12</a>. If as A.V., the more natural expression would be παρὰ πᾶσιν as <a href="/matthew/19-26.htm">Matthew 19:26</a>; <a href="/acts/26-8.htm">Acts 26:8</a>; <a href="/romans/2-13.htm">Romans 2:13</a>; <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-6.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:6</a>; <a href="/james/1-27.htm">James 1:27</a>. Ἑν πᾶσιν in all things appears in this chapter, <a href="/hebrews/13-18.htm">Hebrews 13:18</a>. There are many points in which marriage is to be honored besides the avoidance of illicit connections. See on <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:6</a>.<p>God will judge (κρινεῖ ὁ θεός)<p>Note the emphatic position of ὁ θεός. 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