Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

New American Standard Bible

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

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 and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

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:

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

πορνεία 
Porneia 
Usage: 21

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

ἀκαθαρσία 
Akatharsia 
Usage: 9

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

πλεονεξία 
Pleonexia 
Usage: 8

let it
ὀνομάζω 
Onomazo 
Usage: 10

not be once
μηδέ 
mede 
neither, nor, not, nor yet, not once, no not, not so much as
Usage: 31

ὀνομάζω 
Onomazo 
Usage: 10

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

as
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

πρέπω 
Prepo 
Usage: 6

Context Readings

Imitators Of God

2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell, 3 and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; 4 also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;


Cross References

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

1 Corinthians 6:18

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Ephesians 5:5

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Ephesians 5:12

for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

Exodus 18:21

And thou -- thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

Exodus 20:17

Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which is thy neighbour's.'

Exodus 23:13

and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.

Numbers 25:1

And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

Deuteronomy 23:17-18

'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;

Joshua 7:21

and I see among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one wedge of gold, whose weight is fifty shekels, and I desire them, and take them; and lo, they are hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.'

1 Samuel 8:3

and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.

Psalm 10:3

Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

Psalm 119:36

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

Micah 2:2

And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

Matthew 15:19

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

Mark 7:21-22

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

Luke 12:15

And he said unto them, 'Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

Luke 16:14

And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

Acts 15:20

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

Acts 20:33

'The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

Romans 6:13

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

Romans 16:2

that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.

1 Corinthians 5:1

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

1 Corinthians 5:10-11

and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world --

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

1 Corinthians 10:8

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

Galatians 5:19-21

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Ephesians 4:19-20

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

Philippians 1:27

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

1 Thessalonians 4:3

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

1 Thessalonians 4:7

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

1 Timothy 2:10

but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

1 Timothy 6:10

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

2 Timothy 3:2

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

Titus 1:7

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Titus 1:11

whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Titus 2:3

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

Hebrews 12:16

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

Hebrews 13:4-5

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

1 Peter 5:2

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

2 Peter 2:3

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

2 Peter 2:10

and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

Revelation 2:14

'But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

Revelation 2:21

and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

Revelation 9:21

yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

Revelation 21:8

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

Revelation 22:15

and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

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