Ephesians 5:11

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Ephesians 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

No

Unfruitful

Works

General references

Bible References

No

Therefore do not be sharers with them,

Simeon and Levi [are] brothers; weapons of violence [are] their swords. Let me not come into their council.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of [the] wicked; nor does he stand in [the] way of sinners; nor does he sit in [the] assembly of mockers.

I do not sit with deceitful people, nor will I go about with hypocrites.

Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?

In the path of the wicked do not go; do not walk in the way of those who do evil.

Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding."

I sat not in the assembly of jokers, [nor did] I exult. Because of the {presence} of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me [with] indignation.

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

[No], but that [the things] which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation [is there between] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [does] light [have] with darkness?

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain.

maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people].

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into [your] house and do not speak a greeting to him,

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out from her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins, and so that you will not receive her plagues,

Unfruitful

They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes,

Tell [the] innocent that [it is] good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Works

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

General references

and {the ostrich} and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind,

so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and [thereby] you sin against Yahweh your God.

My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by.

Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house,

Leave {the presence of a foolish man}, [for] you will not [come to] know {words of knowledge}.

And you shall not enter [the] house of [the] banquet, to sit with them, to eat and drink."

Therefore do not be sharers with them,