Ephesians 5:16
redemynge the tyme: for the dayes are evyll.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
In Context
15Take hede therfore that ye walke circuspectly: not as foles: but as wyse
17Wherfore be ye not vnwyse but vnderstonde what the will of the Lorde is
Cross References
Matthew 25:17Lykwyse he that receaved .ii. gayned other .ii.
Acts 11:28And ther stode vp one of them named Agabus and signified by the sprete that ther shuld be great derth throughoute all the worlde which came to passe in the Emproure Claudius dayes.
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose that it is good for the present necessite. For it is good for a man so to be.
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 →