Ephesians 5:3

So that fornicacion and all vnclennes or coveteousnes be not once named amonge you as it be commeth saynctes:

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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

In Context

2and walke in love even as Christ loved vs and gave him silfe for vs an offerynge and a sacrifyce of a swete saver to god.

4nether filthynes nether folishe talkyng nether gestinge which are not comly: but rather gevynge of thankes

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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 →

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