Cross references

Hebrews 13:4

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

Hebrews 13:4 BSB

Hebrews 13:4 has 27 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 27 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 2:24 (77 votes) and Proverbs 5:15–23 (31 votes). 57 other verses point back to it. It links with 30 other books, from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22.

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Which verses does Hebrews 13:4 point to?

The 20 strongest of 27, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Genesis 2:2477 votes

    For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

  2. Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? …

  3. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. …

  4. The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

  5. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

  6. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

  7. and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

  8. God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

  9. Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

  10. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Which verses point to Hebrews 13:4?

The 10 strongest of 57.