Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
4. Marriage is honourable in all, etc. Some think this an exhortation to the married to conduct themselves modestly and in a becoming manner, that the husband should live with his wife temperately and chastely, and not defile the conjugal bed by unbeseeming wantonness.
Brotherly love among believers is the spirit of Christianity itself; faith works by love, and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. But disputes about religion corrode this affection when it is most needed, and you must guard against it with all proper means.
AI summary
Commenting on Hebrews 13:1-17
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...