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

Do not, then, become co-partners with them;

Simeon and Levi, are brethren, - Instruments of violence, are their agreements:

How happy the man, who hath not walked in the counsel of the lawless, - and, in the way of sinners, hath not stood, and, in the seat of scoffers, hath not sat;

I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;

Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute?

Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked:

Forsake the simple ones, and live, and advance in the way of understanding.

I sat not in the circle of mockers, Nor became I uproarious, - Because of thy hand, by myself did I sit, For with indignation, hadst thou filled me.

But I beseech you, brethren, to keep an eye upon them who are causing divisions and occasions of stumbling, aside from the teaching which, ye, have learned, - and be turning away from them;

I wrote a unto you in my letter - not to be mixing yourselves up with fornicators; -

On the contrary - that, the things which the nations sacrifice, unto demons, and not unto God, they sacrifice; and I wish not that ye should become, sharers together with the demons!

Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

Howbeit, we charge you, brethren, - that, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, ye be withdrawing yourselves from every brother - who, in a disorderly way, doth walk, and not according to the instruction which ye received from us.

incessant quarrellings of men wholly corrupt in their mind and bereft of the truth, - supposing godliness to be, a means of gain!

having a form of godliness, but, the power thereof, denying! and, from these, turn away;

And I heard another voice out of heaven, saying - Come forth, my people, out of her, - that ye may have no fellowship with her sins, and, of her plagues, that ye may not receive;

Unfruitful

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.

Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:

What fruit, therefore, had ye then - in things for which ye now are taking shame to yourselves? For, the end of those things, is death.

Because, he that soweth into his own flesh, out of the flesh, shall reap corruption, whereas, he that soweth into the Spirit, out of the Spirit, shall reap age-abiding life.

Works

That ye were to strip off - as regardeth the former behaviour - the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings,

They, have become rebels against the light, - they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

And, this, is the judgment: That, the light, hath come into the world, - and men loved, rather the darkness than the light, for, wicked, were their, works.

Professing to be wise, they were made foolish,

The night, is far spent and, the day, hath drawn near; let us, then, cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light, -

For, they that sleep, by night, do sleep, and, they that drink, by night, do drink: -

General references

and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, - and the hawk after its kind;

lest they teach you to do, according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, - and so ye sin against Yahweh your God.

My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.

Avoid it, do not pass thereon - turn from it, and depart.

Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house:

Get thee from the presence of a man that is a dullard, when thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

And the house of banqueting, shall thou not enter To sit with them, To eat and to drink.

Do not, then, become co-partners with them;