Ephesians 5:3

But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.

4Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting--they are all alike discreditable--and in place of these give thanks.

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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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