Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. New Living Translation Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people. English Standard Version But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Berean Standard Bible But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. Berean Literal Bible But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you, as also is proper to saints, King James Bible But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; New King James Version But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; New American Standard Bible But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints; NASB 1995 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; NASB 1977 But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints; Legacy Standard Bible But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; Amplified Bible But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith]. Christian Standard Bible But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. Holman Christian Standard Bible But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. American Standard Version But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; Aramaic Bible in Plain English But fornication, all impurity and greed are not even to be named at all among you, as is appropriate for Holy Ones, Contemporary English Version You are God's people, so don't let it be said that any of you are immoral or indecent or greedy. Douay-Rheims Bible But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: English Revised Version But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; GOD'S WORD® Translation Don't let sexual sin, perversion of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you. This is not appropriate behavior for God's holy people. Good News Translation Since you are God's people, it is not right that any matters of sexual immorality or indecency or greed should even be mentioned among you. International Standard Version Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints. Literal Standard Version and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, do not let it even be named among you, as is proper to holy ones; Majority Standard Bible But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. New American Bible Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, NET Bible But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. New Revised Standard Version But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints. New Heart English Bible But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; Webster's Bible Translation But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Weymouth New Testament But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people. World English Bible But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; Young's Literal Translation and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Imitators of God…2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. 3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. 4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.… Cross References Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you." Treasury of Scripture But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints; fornication. Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Ephesians 4:19,20 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness… Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. covetousness. Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. named. Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. Exodus 23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. as. Romans 16:2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; 1 Timothy 2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Jump to Previous Acts Covetousness Desire Evil Fitting Flesh Fornication God's Greed Immorality Improper Impurity Kind Lewdness Mentioned Once Others Ought Proper Property Right Saints Sexual Unbridled Unclean UncleannessJump to Next Acts Covetousness Desire Evil Fitting Flesh Fornication God's Greed Immorality Improper Impurity Kind Lewdness Mentioned Once Others Ought Proper Property Right Saints Sexual Unbridled Unclean UncleannessEphesians 5 1. After general exhortations to love;3. to flee sexual immorality; 4. and all uncleanness; 7. not to converse with the wicked; 15. to walk carefully; 18. and to be filled with the Spirit; 22. he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands; 25. and husbands ought to love their wives, 32. even as Christ does his church. (3b) Ephesians 5:3-14 warn, with even greater fulness and emphasis, against the sins of impurity and lust, as incompatible with membership of the kingdom of heaven, as works of darkness, impossible to those who are children of light. (3) But fornication, and all uncleanness, or Christian light covetousness.--"Fornication" is closely joined (as in 2Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Colossians 3:5) with "uncleanness," of which general sin it is a flagrant species. It is distinguished (as also in Colossians 3:5) from "covetousness," or greediness. "Uncleanness" is a sin against our own body and soul (see 1Corinthians 6:18); "covetousness" (literally, the insatiable desire for more) is a sin against our neighbour. At the same time, the constant connection of the two words suggests the truth which is conveyed by the union of the two kinds of "coveting" in the Tenth Commandment, viz., that the temper of selfish and unbridled concupiscence has a two-fold direction--to the covetousness of lust, and to the covetousness of avarice--the one perhaps especially a vice of youth, and the other of old age. . . . Verses 3-21. - THE WALK SUITABLE TO THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT. Verse 3. - But. Another of the remarkable contrasts of this Epistle; the fumes of lust are doubly odious in contact with the sweet savor of Christ's offering. Fornication and all impurity, or covetousness. The combination of covetousness with sins of the flesh, occurring several times in the apostle's writings (1 Corinthians 5:11; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5), is rather unexpected. Πλεονεξία, covetousness, means the desire of having more, which is peculiarly true of sensual sins; but it is not coupled with them by a καὶ, but disjoined by an η}, indicating something of another class. In the mind of the apostle, sensuality was inseparable from greed, unnatural craving for more, dissatisfaction with what was enough; hence the neighborhood of the two vices. Let it not be even named among you, as becometh saints. The practice of such sins was out of the question; but even speaking of them, as matters of ordinary conversation, was unsuitable for saints; the very conversation of Christians must be pure. The exhortation bears on Christians in their social relations; had the apostle been treating of the duty of the individual, he would have urged that such sins should never be admitted even to the thoughts or the imagination.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Butδὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. among ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. you, ὑμῖν (hymin) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. as καθὼς (kathōs) Adverb Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that. is proper πρέπει (prepei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 4241: It becomes, is fitting to, is right. Apparently a primary verb; to tower up, i.e. to be suitable or proper. among the saints, ἁγίοις (hagiois) Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's 40: Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred. there must not be even a hint ὀνομαζέσθω (onomazesthō) Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 3687: From onoma; to name, i.e. Assign an appellation; by extension, to utter, mention, profess. of sexual immorality, Πορνεία (Porneia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 4202: Fornication, whoredom; met: idolatry. From porneuo; harlotry; figuratively, idolatry. [or] καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. of any kind πᾶσα (pasa) Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. of impurity, ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 167: Uncleanness, impurity. From akathartos; impurity, physically or morally. or ἢ (ē) Conjunction Strong's 2228: Or, than. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than. of greed. πλεονεξία (pleonexia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 4124: Covetousness, avarice, aggression, desire for advantage. From pleonektes; avarice, i.e. fraudulency, extortion. Links Ephesians 5:3 NIVEphesians 5:3 NLT Ephesians 5:3 ESV Ephesians 5:3 NASB Ephesians 5:3 KJV Ephesians 5:3 BibleApps.com Ephesians 5:3 Biblia Paralela Ephesians 5:3 Chinese Bible Ephesians 5:3 French Bible Ephesians 5:3 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Ephesians 5:3 But sexual immorality and all uncleanness (Ephes. Eph. Ep) |
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