Ephesians 5:7
Therefore, do not choose to become participants with them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 16:26and he said to the crowd, “Withdraw from the tabernacles of these impious men, and touch nothing which pertains to them, lest you become involved in their sins.”
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners should entice you, do not consent to them.
Proverbs 13:20Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.
Ephesians 5:11And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.
Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: “Go away from her, my people, so that you may not be participants in her pleasures, and so that you may not be recipients of her afflictions.
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 →