Ephesians 5:3

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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,

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.

Exodus 18:21

Then provide, from all of the people, men capable and fearing God, in whom there is truth and who hate avarice, and appoint from them tribunes, and leaders of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

Exodus 20:17

You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; neither shall you desire his wife, nor male servant, nor female servant, nor ox, nor donkey, nor anything that is his."

Exodus 23:13

Preserve all that I have said to you. And by the names of foreign gods you shall not swear; neither shall these be heard from your mouth.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader destitute of prudence will oppress many through false accusations. But whoever hates avarice shall prolong his days.

Jeremiah 22:17

Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.

Jeremiah 6:13

Certainly, from the least of them even to the greatest, all of them practice greed. And from the prophet even to the priest, all of them act with deceit.

Jeremiah 8:10

Because of this, I will give their wives to outsiders and their fields to others as an inheritance. For from the least, even to the greatest, they all pursue avarice; from the prophet, even to the priest, they all act with deceit.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you, as if the people were entering, and my people sit before you. And they listen to your words, but they do not do them. For they turn them into a song for their mouth, but their heart pursues their own avarice.

Leviticus 15:18

The woman with whom he has had sexual intercourse shall be washed with water, and she shall be unclean until evening.

Micah 2:2

And they have desired fields and have taken them by violence, and they have stolen houses. And they have made false accusations against a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Numbers 25:1

Now Israel, at that time, dwelt in Shittim, and the people were fornicating with the daughters of Moab,

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Luke 12:15

So he said to them: "Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person's life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses."

Luke 16:14

But the Pharisees, who were greedy, were listening to all these things. And they ridiculed him.

Acts 15:20

but instead that we write to them, that they should keep themselves from the defilement of idols, and from fornication, and from whatever has been suffocated, and from blood.

Acts 20:33

I have coveted neither silver and gold, nor apparel,

Romans 1:29

having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;

Romans 16:2

so that you may receive her in the Lord with the worthiness of the saints, and so that you may be of assistance to her in whatever task she will have need of you. For she herself has also assisted many, and myself also.

Romans 6:13

Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.

1 Corinthians 10:8

And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on one day.

1 Corinthians 5:1

Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God shall destroy both the stomach and food. And the body is not for fornication, but rather for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.

2 Corinthians 12:21

If so, then, when I have arrived, God may again humble me among you. And so, I mourn for the many who sinned beforehand, and did not repent, over the lust and fornication and homosexuality, which they have committed.

Ephesians 5:12

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

Ephesians 5:5

For know and understand this: no one who is a fornicator, or lustful, or rapacious (for these are a kind of service to idols) holds an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Philippians 1:27

Only let your behavior be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that, whether I return and see you, or whether, being absent, I hear about you, still you may stand firm with one spirit, with one mind, laboring together for the faith of the Gospel.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.

1 Timothy 2:10

but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

1 Timothy 6:10

For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

2 Timothy 3:2

Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

Titus 1:11

These must be reproved, for they subvert entire houses, teaching things which should not be taught, for the favor of shameful gain.

Titus 1:7

And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,

Titus 2:3

Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well,

Hebrews 12:16

lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.

Joshua 7:21

For I saw among the spoils a very fine scarlet cloak, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a gold bar of fifty shekels. And coveting these, I took and hid them in the ground near the middle of my tent, and I covered the silver with the soil that I had dug."

1 Peter 5:2

pasture the flock of God that is among you, providing for it, not as a requirement, but willingly, in accord with God, and not for the sake of tainted profit, but freely,

2 Peter 2:10

even more so, those who walk after the flesh in unclean desires, and who despise proper authority. Boldly pleasing themselves, they do not dread to introduce divisions by blaspheming;

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of adultery and of incessant offenses, luring unstable souls, having a heart well-trained in avarice, sons of curses!

2 Peter 2:3

And in avarice, they will negotiate about you with false words. Their judgment, in the near future, is not delayed, and their perdition does not sleep.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you. For you have, in that place, those who hold to the doctrine of Balaam, who instructed Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

Revelation 2:21

And I gave her a time, so that she might do penance, but she is not willing to repent from her fornication.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

Outside are dogs, and drug users, and homosexuals, and murderers, and those who serve idols, and all who love and do what is false.

Revelation 9:21

And they did not repent from their murders, nor from their drugs, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways. Instead, they turned aside, pursuing avarice. And they accepted bribes, and they perverted judgment.