Parallel Verses
Sawyer New Testament
Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,
New American Standard Bible
But
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
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;
Noyes New Testament
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh 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;
Themes
Covetousness » Is inconsistent » In saints
Foolishness » Not being foolish
Impurity » General references to
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 5:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Imitators Of God
2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor. 3 Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints, 4 nor indecorum and foolish talking, or jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.
Cross References
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
1 Corinthians 6:18
Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.
Ephesians 5:5
For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;
Ephesians 5:12
For the things which are done by them in secret it is base even to mention;
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21-22
for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications,
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the abundance of his property.
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees, who are avaricious, heard all these things, and derided him.
Acts 15:20
but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.
Acts 20:33
I have coveted no man's silver or gold or clothing;
Romans 1:29
being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,
Romans 6:13
neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 16:2
that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.
1 Corinthians 5:1
IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 5:10-11
not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:19-21
For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,
Ephesians 4:19-20
who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.
Philippians 1:27
Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us to impurity, but to purity.
1 Timothy 2:10
but with good works, which become women professing godliness.
1 Timothy 3:3
not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
2 Timothy 3:2
Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Titus 1:7
For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,
Titus 1:11
whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.
Titus 2:3
that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,
Hebrews 12:16
that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.
Hebrews 13:4-5
Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 5:2
feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,
2 Peter 2:3
and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
2 Peter 2:10
but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.
Revelation 2:21
And I gave her time to change her mind, and she will not change her mind from her fornication.
Revelation 9:21
and did not change their minds [to turn] from their murders, nor from their magic arts, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Without are dogs and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practises falsehood.