Ephesians 5:3 Cross References - Riverside

³ Unchastity or any kind of impurity or greediness must not be mentioned among you, as befits holy people;

¹⁹ For from the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murders, adulteries, unchastities, thefts, perjuries, profane words.

²¹ for from within, out of the hearts of men, come evil thoughts, unchastities, thefts, murders, ²² adulteries, lusts, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, arrogance, recklessness —

¹⁵ He said to them, "See to it and be on your guard against every form of covetousness, for not even when one has a superabundance is his life from the things he owns."

¹⁴ The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all this and they were sneering at him.

²⁰ but to write to them to abstain from contamination with idols, and from unchastity, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel.

²⁹ filled with all injustice, wickedness, greed, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, fraud, malignant craftiness, whisperers,

¹³ and do not yield your members to sin as the instruments of wickedness; but present yourselves to God as men once dead, but now living, and yield your members to God as the instruments of righteousness.

² that you may receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the holy, and help her in any matter in which she may need you. For she has been a provider for many, myself included.

¹ IT is generally reported that there is unchastity among you, and such unchastity as is not even among the Gentiles, so that a man has his father's wife!

¹⁰ certainly not meaning the unchaste of this world, or the covetous or extortionate or idolaters, since in that case you would have to leave the world. ¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate with any one who is called a brother, if he is unchaste or covetous or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or extortionate — not even to eat with such a one.

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹³ Food of all kinds is for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will end the function of one and the other. The body is not for unchastity, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

¹⁸ Shun unchastity. Every other sin that a man does is apart from the body, but the unchaste sins against his own body.

⁸ Nor let us be unchaste, as some of them were and twenty-three thousand fell dead in one day.

²¹ I am afraid that when I come again my God may humble me in your presence, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have been long sinning and have not repented of the impurity and unchastity and sensuality which they have practiced.

¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹⁹ Lost to any sense of shame they have abandoned themselves to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. ²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ,

⁵ For you know well that no unchaste or impure person, no greedy person — who is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

¹² for the things that they do in secret it is shameful even to speak of.

²⁷ Only exercise your citizenship in a manner worthy of the good news of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or in absence hear news of you, I may know that you are standing in one spirit, with one mind wrestling in the faith of the good news

⁵ Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry.

³ For this is the will of God: to have you become holy and have you shun unchastity;

⁷ God has not called us to live in impurity, but in holiness.

¹⁰ but — as is becoming for women professing piety — with good deeds.

³ not given to wine or to blows, but fair-minded, averse to strife, not a lover of money,

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs.

² for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

⁷ For a bishop, as God's steward, must be above reproach, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not given to blows, not eager for base gain,

¹¹ who ought to be silenced, for they are upsetting whole house-holds, teaching what they should not, merely for the sake of base gain.

³ Tell the older women, in the same way, to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is noble,

¹⁶ that there shall be none unchaste, or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all and let the bed be undefiled; for unchaste persons and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let your lives be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have. For he has said, "I will not fail you nor will I forsake you."

² I beg you to shepherd the flock of God that is among you, not because you must, but willingly, not for base gain, but eagerly,

³ In covetousness they will make gain out of you by their cunning words. But their condemnation from of old has not been inactive, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

¹⁰ especially those who go after flesh in polluting passions, and despise lordship. They are daring, self-willed; they do not tremble to speak insultingly of glorious beings

¹⁴ They have eyes engrossed with some adulteress, eyes which never cease from sin. They seduce unsteady souls. They have hearts practiced in covetousness. They are children of a curse.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have some who hold the teaching of Balaam who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel: to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit unchastity.

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she will not repent of her unchastity.

²¹ nor did they repent of their murders nor of their magic nor of their unchastities nor of their thefts.

⁸ But the timid and faithless and abominable and murderers and the unchaste and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars will have their lot in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the unchaste and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loves and makes a lie.