Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
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;
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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Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 5:3
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Context Readings
Imitators Of God
2 and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell. 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints), 4 and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.
Cross References
Colossians 3:5
Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:5
For this you know {for certain}, that every sexually immoral [person], or unclean [person], or greedy [person] (who is an idolater), does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Ephesians 5:12
For it is shameful even to speak [about] the things being [done] by them in secret,
Exodus 18:21
And you will select from all the people men of ability, fearers of God, trustworthy men, haters of [dishonest] gain, and you will appoint [such men] over them [as] commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens.
Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you will not covet the wife of your neighbor or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that [is] your neighbor's."
Exodus 23:13
" 'And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not {profess} the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth.
Numbers 25:1
When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostitute [themselves] with the daughters of Moab.
Deuteronomy 23:17-18
"No woman {of Israel} shall be a temple prostitute, and no man {of Israel} shall be a male shrine prostitute.
Joshua 7:21
I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold [that] weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They [are] hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver [is] under it."
1 Samuel 8:3
But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice.
Psalm 10:3
for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt.
Psalm 119:36
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to [dishonest] gain.
Proverbs 28:16
A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, [but] those who hate unjust gain will have long days.
Jeremiah 6:13
"For from the smallest of them to the greatest of them, {everyone} makes profit for unlawful gain. And from the prophet to the priest, {everyone} practices deceit.
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from [the] smallest to [the] greatest, all of them make profit [for] unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit.
Jeremiah 22:17
"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize [them], and houses, and they take [them] away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance.
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not [even] when someone has an abundance {does} his life [consist] of his possessions."
Luke 16:14
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these [things], and they ridiculed him.
Acts 15:20
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
Acts 20:33
I have desired no one's silver or gold or clothing!
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
Romans 6:13
and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.
Romans 16:2
in order that you may welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever task she may have need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, even me myself.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.
1 Corinthians 5:10-11
By no means [did I mean] the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners,
1 Corinthians 10:8
nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day,
2 Corinthians 12:21
[I am afraid] lest [when I] come again my God will humiliate me {in your presence}, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
Ephesians 4:19-20
who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.
Philippians 1:27
Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear {your circumstances}, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.
1 Timothy 2:10
but with good deeds which are fitting for women who profess godliness.
1 Timothy 3:3
not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, [because they] desire [it], have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.
2 Timothy 3:2
for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Titus 1:7
For it is necessary [for] the overseer to be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,
Titus 1:11
whom it is necessary to silence, whoever are ruining whole families [by] teaching [things] which must not be [taught] for the sake of dishonest gain.
Titus 2:3
Older women likewise [are to be] reverent in [their] behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
Hebrews 12:16
[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.
Hebrews 13:4-5
Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly,
2 Peter 2:3
And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
2 Peter 2:10
and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold [and] arrogant, they do not tremble in awe [as they] blaspheme majestic beings,
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
Revelation 2:21
And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality.
Revelation 9:21
and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.
Revelation 21:8
But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.