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Marriage is Honorable for All
Commentators emphasize that this verse is a command: "Let marriage be held in honor among all." This was a crucial teaching against false asceticism that viewed celibacy as a superior spiritual state. Scholars like Calvin and Barnes explain that the phrase "among all" means marriage is an honorable option for all people, including church leaders, directly countering any doctrine that would forbid it.
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Hebrews
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 13:4
18th Century
Theologian
Marriage is honourable in all. The object here is to state that honor is to be shown to the marriage relation. It is not to be undervalued…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be (ο γαμος). No verb in the Greek. The copula can be supplied either εστιν (is) or εστω (let be, imperative).
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 13:4
19th Century
Bishop
Marriage is honourable in all.—Rather, Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fo…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 13:4
19th Century
Preacher
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
And terrible will be their do…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 13:4
From love for the badly treated the author turns to love within the marriage bond. The opening expression implies an imperative: “Let marriage be h…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 13:4
16th Century
Theologian
Marriage is honorable in all, etc. Some think this is an exhortation to married people to conduct themselves modestly and in a becoming ma…
John Gill
On Hebrews 13:4
17th Century
Pastor
Marriage is honourable in all
Some read these words as an exhortation, "let" it "be so"; others as an assertion, it is so. "Ma…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 13:1–6
17th Century
Minister
The purpose of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and true religion is t…