Ephesians 5:3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
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Exodus 18:21And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.
Exodus 23:13Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.
Numbers 25:1And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,
Joshua 7:21For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment exceeding good, and two hundred sides of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sides: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground is the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.
Proverbs 28:16A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he that hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 5:2-3
Cautions against Impurity. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. Here we have the exhortation to mutual love, or to Christian charity. The apostle had been insisting on this in the former chapter, and particularly in the last verses of it, to which the particle therefore refers, and connects what he had said there with what is contained in these… Read the whole commentary →