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, companions with them.

The brethren Simeon and Levi, wicked instruments are their weapons.

O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful.

Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?

Come not in the path of the ungodly, and walk not in the way of the wicked.

Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."

I dwell not among the council of scorners, neither is my delight therein: but I dwell only in the fear of thy hand, for thou hast filled me with bitterness.

I beseech you, brethren: mark them which cause division, and give occasions of evil contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

I wrote unto you in an epistle that ye should not company with fornicators.

Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.

Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness?

We require you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh inordinately, and not after the institution which ye received of us.

and vain disputations of men with corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, which think that lucre is godliness. From such, separate thyself.

having a similitude of godly living, but have denied the power thereof. Such abhor.

If there come any unto you and bring not this learning, him receive not to house: neither bid him Godspeed.

And I heard another voice from heaven say, "Come away from her, my people, that ye be not partakers in her sins, that ye receive not of her plagues.

Unfruitful

Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:

Bid the righteous do well, for they shall enjoy the fruits of their studies.

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

He that soweth in his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit shall, of the spirit, reap life everlasting.

Works

so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,

whereas they, notwithstanding, are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seek not his light and way, nor turn again in to his path.

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

When they counted themselves wise, they became fools

The night is past and the day is come nigh. Let us therefore cast away the deeds 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

the ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk, and all the kind;

that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and so should sin against the LORD your God.

My son, consent not unto sinners,

Eschew it, and go not therein: depart aside, and pass over by it.

Keep thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house:

See that thou meddle not with a fool; and do as though thou hadst no knowledge.

Thou shalt not go into their feast house to sit down, much less to eat or drink with them.

Be not, therefore, companions with them.