Ephesians 5:11

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Summary

Ephesians 5:11

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

No

Unfruitful

Romans 6:21

Galatians 6:8

Works

1 Thessalonians 5:7

General references

Ephesians 5:7

Bible References

No

So you must stop having anything to do with them.

But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.

I wrote you in my letter to stop associating with sexually immoral people --

I mean that what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be in fellowship with demons.

Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?

Now we charge you, brothers, on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to hold yourselves aloof from any brother who is living as a shirker instead of following the teachings you received from us.

and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.

keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.

If anyone continuously comes to see you without bringing this teaching, you must stop welcoming him to your house and stop bidding him good morning,

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins and suffer from her plagues.

Unfruitful

What benefit did you then derive from doing the things of which you are now ashamed? None, for they end in death.

The person who sows to gratify his lower nature will reap destruction from that lower nature, and the person who sows to gratify his higher nature will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Works

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

Though claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves,

The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

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

General references

So you must stop having anything to do with them.