Ephesians 5:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ But whoring and all uncleanness, or greed of gain, let it not even be named among you, as is proper among set-apart ones –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But immorality (sexual vice) and all impurity [of lustful, rich, wasteful living] or greediness must not even be named among you, as is fitting and proper among saints (God's consecrated people).

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³ Sexual immorality, and any kind of impurity or greed, shouldn’t even be mentioned among you, which is right for holy persons.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,

Ephesians 5:3 Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For the wrongdoer boasted of his cravings; And the greedy one cursed and despised יהוה.

Psalm 119:36

Incline my heart to Your witnesses, And not to own gain.

Exodus 18:21

“But you yourself, seek out from all the people able men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, hating unfair gain. And place these over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 20:17

“You do not covet your neighbour’s house, you do not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbour.”

Exodus 23:13

“And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, But the hater of greed prolongs his days.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

Jeremiah 6:13

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, they are all greedy for gain. And from the prophet even to the priest, all act falsely.

Jeremiah 8:10

“Therefore I give their wives to others, and their fields to possessing ones. For from the least even to the greatest, they are all greedy for gain. From the prophet to the priest, all act falsely.

Ezekiel 33:31

“And they come to you as people do, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love – their hearts pursue their greedy gain.

Leviticus 15:18

‘And when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they both shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Micah 2:2

And they coveted fields and seized them, also houses, and took them away. And they oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Numbers 25:1

And Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 15:19

“For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Luke 12:15

And He said to them, “Mind, and beware of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the excess of his possessions.”

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees, who loved silver, also heard all this, and were sneering at Him,

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 20:33

“I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or garments.

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoring, wickedness, greed, evil; filled with envy, murder, fighting, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,

Romans 16:2

that you receive her in יהוה, worthy of the set-apart ones, and assist her in whatever matter she has need of you. For she has been a great help to many, including me.

Romans 6:13

neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to Elohim as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to Elohim.

1 Corinthians 10:8

Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the gentiles, so as one to have his father’s wife!

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods – but Elohim shall destroy both it and them. And the body is not for whoring but for the Master, and the Master for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee whoring. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits whoring sins against his own body.

2 Corinthians 12:21

and lest, when I come again, my Elohim should humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, and whoring, and indecency which they have practised.

Ephesians 5:12

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

Ephesians 5:5

For this you know, that no one who whores, nor unclean one, nor one greedy of gain, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the reign of Messiah and Elohim.

Philippians 1:27

Only, behave yourselves worthily of the Good News of Messiah, in order that whether I come and see you or am absent, I hear about you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one being, striving together for the belief of the Good News,

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: whoring, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed of gain, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the desire of Elohim: your set-apartness! – that you should abstain from whoring,

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For Elohim did not call us to uncleanness, but in set-apartness.

1 Timothy 2:10

but with good works, which is becoming for women undertaking worship of Elohim.

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, no brawler, but gentle, not quarrelsome, no lover of money,

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some, by longing for it, have strayed from the belief, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

2 Timothy 3:2

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, thankless, wrong-doers,

Titus 1:11

whose mouths have to be stopped, who upset entire households, teaching what they should not teach, for the sake of filthy gain.

Titus 1:7

For an overseer has to be unreprovable, as a managing one of Elohim, not self-pleasing, not wroth, not given to wine, no brawler, not greedy for filthy gain,

Titus 2:3

the older women likewise are to be set-apart in behaviour, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of what is good,

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be anyone who whores, or profane one, like Ě

Joshua 7:21

“When I saw among the spoil a lovely garment from Shinʽ

1 Peter 5:2

Shepherd the flock of Elohim which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but voluntarily, not out of greed for filthy gain, but eagerly,

2 Peter 2:10

and most of all those walking after the flesh in filthy lust and despising authority – bold, headstrong, speaking evil of esteemed ones,

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes filled with an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable beings, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

Revelation 2:14

“But I hold a few matters against you, because you have there those who adhere to the teaching of Bilʽ

Revelation 2:21

“And I gave her time to repent of her whoring, and she did not repent.

Revelation 21:8

“But as for the cowardly, and untrustworthy, and abominable, and murderers, and those who whore, and drug sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

“But outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.

Revelation 9:21

And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their drug sorceries, nor of their whoring, nor of their thefts.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after own gain, and took bribes, and twisted right-ruling.