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 not ye therefore partakers with them.

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

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

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

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth 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 thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye 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 devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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

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

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 ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye 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 ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

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

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

Works

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

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

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 armour of light.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

General references

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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

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

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

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

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

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.