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Imitators of God

Ephesians 5:3

In 9 translations

BSB
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
KJV
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
WEB
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
ASV
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
LSV
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, do not let it even be named among you, as is proper to holy ones;
YLT
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
DBY
But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
DRC
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
GNV
But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth Saintes,

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place ἀκαθαρσία elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ἀκαθαρσία πᾶσα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀκαθαρσία πᾶσα; Robinson–Pierpont read πᾶσα ἀκαθαρσία.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Πορνεία δὲ καὶ ἀκαθαρσία πᾶσα ἢ πλεονεξία μηδὲ ὀνομαζέσθω ἐν ὑμῖν, καθὼς πρέπει ἁγίοις,
RP2018
Πορνεία δὲ καὶ πᾶσα ἀκαθαρσία ἢ πλεονεξία μηδὲ ὀνομαζέσθω ἐν ὑμῖν, καθὼς πρέπει ἁγίοις·
TR-Boyd
Πορνεία δὲ καὶ πᾶσα ἀκαθαρσία ἢ πλεονεξία μηδὲ ὀνομαζέσθω ἐν ὑμῖν, καθὼς πρέπει ἁγίοις·
SCR1894
πορνεια δε και πασα ακαθαρσια η πλεονεξια μηδε ονομαζεσθω εν υμιν καθως πρεπει αγιοις

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
  • Ephesians 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
  • Galatians 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I…
  • 1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
  • 1 Corinthians 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  • Ephesians 5:12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
  • Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
  • 1 Corinthians 6:9–10Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor…
  • Revelation 2:21Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:10–11I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be…
  • Ephesians 4:19–20Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. But this is not the way you came to know Christ.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
  • Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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