Ephesians 5:12
For the things that are done by them in secret are shameful, even to mention.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
In Context
11And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant.”
Jeremiah 23:24If a man is hidden in concealed places, do I not see him, says the Lord? Do I not fill up heaven and earth, says the Lord?
Romans 1:24For this reason, God handed them over to the desires of their own heart for impurity, so that they afflicted their own bodies with indignities among themselves.
Ephesians 5:3But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,
Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in view of the throne. And books were opened. And another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged by those things that had been written in the books, according to their works.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:4-21
Preservatives from Impurity; Cautions and Admonitions. ( a. d. 61.) 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things… Read the whole commentary →