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

Works

General references

Bible References

No

Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

Simon and Levi brethren; their swords instruments of violence.

Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.

I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.

Shall the throne of mischief be joined together with thee forming labor upon the law?

In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.

Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.

I sat not in the assembly of those mocking, and I will not exult; from the face of thy hand I sat alone, for thou didst fill me with anger.

And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.

I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators.

But, that what things they sacrifice the nations sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I will not ye be partakers of demons.

Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?

And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.

Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.

If there come any to you, and bring not this teaching, receive ye him not into the household, and to rejoice tell him not:

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye partake not of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Unfruitful

And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes

Say to the just, that it is good that they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death.

For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.

Works

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;

They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.

And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.

General references

And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seagull, and the hawk according to its kind;

So that they shall not teach you to do according to all their abominations to their gods; and ye sinned to Jehovah your God.

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

Reject it, thou shalt not pass in it; turn aside from it and pass by.

Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

Go from before to the foolish man and thou knewest not the lips of knowledge.

And to the house of drinking thou shalt not go in to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Be ye not therefore partakers with them.