Hebrews 13:4 (WEB)
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Fathers and councils · 20
Jerome
“And ‘Marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled.’” — editor's note: Hebr. xiii. 4. See note on sec. 3.
Read the whole comment“Not that married women are as such outside the pale; they have their own place, the marriage that is honorable and the bed undefiled.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“We are not ignorant that ‘marriage is honorable…and the bed undefiled.’” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Has there ever been temperance greater than that of Paulina, who, reading the words of the apostle: “marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled,” and not presuming to aspire to the happiness of her virgin sister or the continence of her widowed mother, has preferred to keep to the safe track of a lower…” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“For him it is written “Marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled,” while to you the words are read, “but whoremongers and adulterers God wilt judge,” and “if any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Of course I repudiate the slanders of the heretics; I know that “marriage is honourable…and the bed undefiled.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Remember that part of it belongs to those who have communicated their chastity to you and from whose honourable marriages and beds undefiled you have sprung up like a choice flower.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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John Damascene
“This we say without speaking ill of marriage: God forbid! (for we know that the Lord blessed marriage by His presence, and we know him who said, Marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled), but knowing that virginity is better than marriage, however good.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For as the Apostle saith, Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.10Conference XXI
“…divorce, as we not only in no way condemn marriage, but also, following the words of the Apostle, say: “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled,” but it was in order faithfully to show the reader the origin of the conversion by which this great man was dedicated to God.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“It is not therefore because it is sin to have to do with wives that men are conceived in iniquity, and in sins nourished in the womb by their mother; but because that which is made is surely made of flesh deserving punishment.” — editor's note: [The mother need not be conceived of as sinning in her passive relations to an act which is undefiled in itself (Heb. xiii. 4); but she is a sinner like all…
Read the whole comment““Honorable,” therefore, “is marriage in all, and the bed undefiled.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“Where is that then which we have heard to-day, “Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge”?” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“That lawful use which God permitted when He said, ‘Increase and multiply, and replenish the earth,’ and which the Apostle approves in the words, ‘Marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled,’ or that use which is public, yet carried on stealthily and in adulterous fashion?” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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John Chrysostom
“For “marriage is honorable” ( c. xiii. 4 ), not holy.” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“Hast thou not heard Paul, saying, “Marriage is honorable, and the bed undefiled?”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“It is good to marry; I too admit it, for marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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Gregory the Great
“And again, But fornicators and adulterers God will judge (Heb. xiii. 4).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“And then, as putting the finishing stroke to the question about marriage, he adds: “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 4.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
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Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 8.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 8.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 8.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.