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Ephesians 5:3

James 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;

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So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

Be sure of this, that no one guilty of sexual vice or impurity or lust (that is, an idolater) possesses any inheritance in the realm of Christ and God.

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated;

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

One is indeed ashamed even to speak about what such men do in secret;

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual vice.

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did — and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans — that a man has taken his father's wife!

nor did they repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual vice or of their thefts.

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments — men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did — Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.

afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent,

but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

particularly those who fall in with the polluting appetite of the flesh and despise the Powers celestial. Daring, presumptuous creatures! they are not afraid to scoff at the angelic Glories;

be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely,

they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

[For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession).

Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

receive her in the Lord as saints should receive one another, and give her any help she may require. She has been a help herself to many people, including myself.

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers,

Silver, gold, or apparel I never coveted;

Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.

For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.

Then he said to them, "See and keep clear of covetousness in every shape and form, for a man's life is not part of his possessions because he has ample wealth."




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