Ephesians 5:3

New English Translation

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the Lord.

Psalm 119:36

Give me a desire for your rules, rather than for wealth gained unjustly.

Exodus 18:21

But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Exodus 23:13

“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips.

Proverbs 28:16

The prince who is a great oppressor lacks wisdom, but the one who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Jeremiah 22:17

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

Jeremiah 6:13

“That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.

Jeremiah 8:10

So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.

Leviticus 15:18

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Micah 2:2

They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

Numbers 25:1

When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Luke 12:15

Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.

Acts 15:20

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 20:33

I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

Romans 1:29

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Romans 16:2

so that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and provide her with whatever help she may need from you, for she has been a great help to many, including me.

Romans 6:13

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

1 Corinthians 10:8

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

Ephesians 5:12

For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

Ephesians 5:5

For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Philippians 1:27

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that – whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent – I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Colossians 3:5

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

1 Timothy 2:10

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

2 Timothy 3:2

For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Titus 1:11

who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

Titus 1:7

For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

Titus 2:3

Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

Hebrews 12:16

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Joshua 7:21

I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath.”

1 Peter 5:2

Give a shepherd’s care to God’s flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God’s direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

2 Peter 2:10

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

2 Peter 2:14

Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:21

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

Revelation 9:21

Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not follow his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.