Parallel Verses
Worrell New Testament
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes 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;
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;
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
Verse Info
Context Readings
Imitators Of God
2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell. 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanks-giving.
Cross References
Colossians 3:5
Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:5
For this ye know, assuredly, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But 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 the things done by them in secret.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
Luke 12:15
And He said to them, "Take heed, and guard yourselves from all covetousness; because one's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses."
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were openly mocking Him.
Acts 15:20
but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from anything strangled, and from blood;
Acts 20:33
I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or apparel.
Romans 1:29
having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 6:13
neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Romans 16:2
that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself became a helper of many, and of myself.
1 Corinthians 5:1
Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!
1 Corinthians 5:10-11
not at all meaning, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; since ye ought, in that event, to go out of the world;
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 4:19-20
who, indeed, having become without feeling, delivered themselves up to lasciviousness for the working of all uncleanness with greediness.
Philippians 1:27
Only demean yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the Gospel;
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God??ven your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God did not call us unto uncleanness, but in sanctification.
1 Timothy 2:10
but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works.
1 Timothy 3:3
not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all the evils; which some reaching after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
2 Timothy 3:2
for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Titus 1:7
For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain;
Titus 1:11
whom it is needful to reduce to silence: who, indeed, are overthrowing whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of base gain.
Titus 2:3
that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who, for one meal, yielded up his own birth-right.
Hebrews 13:4-5
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 5:2
feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;
2 Peter 2:3
and, in covetousness, will they, with feigned words, make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
2 Peter 2:10
but especially those who walk after the flesh in a desire for pollution, and despise dominion; daring, self-willed, they tremble not, when railing at dignities;
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit fornication.
Revelation 2:21
And I gave her time, that she might repent; and she is not willing to repent of her fornication.
Revelation 9:21
and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.
Revelation 21:8
But, for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death."
Revelation 22:15
Without are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and acting a lie.