Parallel Verses

Noyes New Testament

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

New American Standard Bible

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

International Standard Version

Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.

A Conservative Version

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].

An Understandable Version

But you should not even talk about sexual immorality, or any type of [moral] impurity, or greed. [Note: Possibly "greed" here means "desire for more" of such things]. Such talk is not suitable for saints [i.e., God's holy people].

Anderson New Testament

But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

Bible in Basic English

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

Common New Testament

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Daniel Mace New Testament

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

Darby Translation

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

Godbey New Testament

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

Goodspeed New Testament

But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.

John Wesley New Testament

But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints:

Julia Smith Translation

And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

Modern King James verseion

For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

Moffatt New Testament

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

Montgomery New Testament

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

NET Bible

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

New Heart English Bible

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Sawyer New Testament

Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,

The Emphasized Bible

But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

Twentieth Century New Testament

As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

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.

Williams New Testament

But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;

World English Bible

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Worrell New Testament

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

Worsley New Testament

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:

Youngs Literal Translation

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

πορνεία 
Porneia 
Usage: 21

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

ἀκαθαρσία 
Akatharsia 
Usage: 9

or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

πλεονεξία 
Pleonexia 
Usage: 8

let it
ὀνομάζω 
Onomazo 
Usage: 10

not be once
μηδέ 
mede 
neither, nor, not, nor yet, not once, no not, not so much as
Usage: 31

ὀνομάζω 
Onomazo 
Usage: 10

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

as
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

πρέπω 
Prepo 
Usage: 6

Context Readings

Imitators Of God

2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor. 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints, 4 neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor indecent jesting, which are not becoming; but rather giving of thanks.

Cross References

Colossians 3:5

Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

Ephesians 5:5

For of this ye are sure, since ye know that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Ephesians 5:12

For the things done in secret by them it is a shame even to speak of.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, blasphemies.

Mark 7:21-22

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, fornications,

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for even when one hath great abundance, his life doth not depend upon his possessions.

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all this, and they derided him.

Acts 15:20

but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.

Acts 20:33

I have coveted no mans silver, or gold, or apparel.

Romans 1:29

being filled with all unrighteousness, malice, covetousness, wickedness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; backbiters,

Romans 6:13

nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 16:2

that ye may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the holy, and assist her in whatever business she may need your aid; for she hath been a helper of many, and of myself also.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife.

1 Corinthians 5:10-11

certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Corinthians 10:8

Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

2 Corinthians 12:21

and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many of those who have sinned already, and did not repent of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they committed.

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such as fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

Ephesians 4:19-20

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.

Philippians 1:27

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to live in uncleanness, but in purity.

1 Timothy 2:10

but, as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all evils; which some coveting have strayed away from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many pangs.

2 Timothy 3:2

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be without reproach, as Gods steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain,

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, since they overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

Titus 2:3

that aged women likewise be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person as Esau, who for one meal sold even his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4-5

Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 5:2

tend the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for base gain, but with ready mind;

2 Peter 2:3

and in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment long ago ordained lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

2 Peter 2:10

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, selfwilled, they are not afraid to rail at dignities;

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of an adulteress, and that cannot cease from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, children of a curse,

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against thee; thou hast there them that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumblingblock in the way of the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

Revelation 2:21

And I gave her time to repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.

Revelation 9:21

and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the polluted with abominations, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loveth and practiseth falsehood.

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