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New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Holman Bible
But sexual immorality
International Standard Version
Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.
A Conservative Version
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,
American Standard Version
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
Amplified
But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].
An Understandable Version
But you should not even talk about sexual immorality, or any type of [moral] impurity, or greed. [Note: Possibly "greed" here means "desire for more" of such things]. Such talk is not suitable for saints [i.e., God's holy people].
Anderson New Testament
But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
Bible in Basic English
But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;
Common New Testament
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Daniel Mace New Testament
But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,
Darby Translation
But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
Godbey New Testament
But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
Goodspeed New Testament
But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.
John Wesley New Testament
But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints:
Julia Smith Translation
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
King James 2000
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
Lexham Expanded Bible
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
Modern King James verseion
For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:
Moffatt New Testament
Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;
Montgomery New Testament
As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;
NET Bible
But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.
New Heart English Bible
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Noyes New Testament
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,
Sawyer New Testament
Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,
The Emphasized Bible
But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;
Twentieth Century New Testament
As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,
Webster
But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Weymouth New Testament
But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.
Williams New Testament
But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;
World English Bible
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Worrell New Testament
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;
Worsley New Testament
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:
Youngs Literal Translation
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
Themes
Covetousness » Is inconsistent » In saints
Foolishness » Not being foolish
Impurity » General references to
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Imitators Of God
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and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.
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Cross References
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Any other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:5
For this ye know, that no fornicator nor unclean person nor covetous man, who is also an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Ephesians 5:12
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which they do in secret.
Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt consider out of all the people men of virtue, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place princes over them, of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manslave, nor his maidslave, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Exodus 23:13
And in all things that I have said unto you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab,
Deuteronomy 23:17-18
There shall be no female cult prostitutes of the daughters of Israel nor any male cult prostitutes of the sons of Israel.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after greed, receiving bribes and perverting that which is right.
Psalm 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
Psalm 119:36
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness.
Proverbs 28:16
The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor, but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them each one is given to greed; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives unto others and their fields unto those that shall inherit them: for each one from the least even unto the greatest is given to greed; from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence, to do it.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they shall come unto thee as the people come, and they shall be before thee, my people, and they shall hear thy words, but they shall not do them; for with their mouth they flatter, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
Micah 2:2
And they coveted fields and stole them, and houses and took them away; so they oppressed the man and his house, even the man and his heritage.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders,
Luke 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.
Acts 15:20
but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.
Acts 20:33
I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 6:13
Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Romans 16:2
that ye receive her in the Lord as a worthy saint, and that ye assist her in whatever thing in which she has need of you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 5:10-11
yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters, for then ye would need to go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I would have to mourn over many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 4:19-20
who, after losing all sense of feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as is worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, unanimous, working together for the faith of the gospel,
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For the will of God is your sanctification, that ye should separate yourselves from fornication,
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.
1 Timothy 2:10
but with good works (as becomes women professing godliness).
1 Timothy 3:3
not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
2 Timothy 3:2
For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,
Titus 1:7
For the bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not arrogant, not quick to anger, not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain,
Titus 1:11
whose mouths it is expedient to stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain.
Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;
Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Hebrews 13:4-5
Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 5:2
Feed the flock of God which is among you, caring for her, not by force, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with willing desire;
2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words, upon whom the condemnation from a long time ago does not delay, and their perdition does not sleep.
2 Peter 2:10
and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;
2 Peter 2:14
having their eyes full of adultery, and not knowing how to cease from sin, baiting unstable souls, having their heart exercised in covetous practices; cursed sons,
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication.
Revelation 2:21
And I have given her time to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.
Revelation 9:21
And they did not repent of their murders nor of their witchcraft nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.