Ephesians 5:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For it is a shame even to speak of or mention the things that [such people] practice in secret.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² It’s embarrassing to even talk about what certain persons do in secret.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For the things that are done by them in secret are shameful, even to mention.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Ephesians 5:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:12

For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and in broad daylight.”

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Ecclesiastes 12:14

For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Jeremiah 23:24

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.

Romans 2:16

on the day when, according to my gospel, God through Christ Jesus judges the secret thoughts of all.

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them.

Ephesians 5:13

but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Revelation 20:12

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.