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

So do not be partners with them.

"Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are violent weapons.

How blessed is the person, who does not take the advice of the wicked, who does not stand on the path with sinners, and who does not sit in the seat of mockers.

I do not sit with those committed to what is false, nor do I travel with hypocrites.

Will destructive national leaders, who plan wicked things through misuse of the Law, be allied with you?

Do not enter the path of the wicked, or go along the way of evil men.

Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

I didn't sit in the company of those who have fun, and I didn't rejoice. Because of your hand on me, I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements that oppose the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them,

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

Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons.

Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?

In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.

and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit.

They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

If anyone comes to you but does not present his teachings, do not receive him into your house or even welcome him,

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you don't participate in her sins and also suffer from her diseases.

Unfruitful

They will eat the fruit of their way, and they will be filled with their own devices.

"Tell the righteous that things will go well, because they will enjoy the fruit of their actions."

What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.

The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

Works

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,

"Then there are those who rebel against the light; they are not acquainted with its ways; and they don't stay on its course.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

Though claiming to be wise, they became fools

The night is almost over, and the day is near. Let's therefore put aside the actions of darkness and put on the armor of light.

For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.

General references

ostrich, nighthawk, seagull, hawks of every kind,

so they won't teach you to do all the detestable things that they do for their gods. If you do what they teach you, you will sin against the LORD your God."

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

Avoid it! Don't travel on it! Turn away from it, and pass on by.

Keep far away from her, and don't go near the entrance to her house,

Stay away from a foolish man, for you will not find competent advice.

Don't go to a banquet to sit with people to eat and drink."

So do not be partners with them.