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Ephesians 5:3

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3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

KJV

3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

BSB

3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

FBV

3Sexual immorality or any kind of indecency or greed should never be mentioned concerning you, as God's people should not be doing such things.

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Extra References

Colossians 3:5

5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.


Ephesians 5:5

5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.


Galatians 5:19-21

19Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.


1 Corinthians 6:18

18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.


1 Thessalonians 4:7

7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.


1 Thessalonians 4:3

3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,


1 Corinthians 6:13

13Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.


Ephesians 5:12

12For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.


Matthew 15:19

19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.


Revelation 2:21

21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.