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

Be not therefore partakers with them.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

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

I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons.

Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what partnership has light with darkness?

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received from us.

Perverse wranglings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

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

Unfruitful

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

Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Works

That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunk are drunk in the night.

General references

And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind,

That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so that you should sin against the LORD your God.

My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.

Also you shall not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

Be not therefore partakers with them.