Ephesians 5:12

Plain English Version

Those people do bad things when nobody can see them. Those things are so bad that if we talk about them, we feel shame.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:12

You did wrong in secret, but God will make sure everybody sees that man do wrong to you.”

Romans 2:16

God sees everything that everybody does and everything that everybody thinks. Nobody can hide anything from him. One day, God will get Jesus Christ to judge everybody about these things. That is the message that I tell everybody. (The next part, 2:17—3:8, mainly talks to Jewish people, so we have not translated it yet.)

Ephesians 5:11

People that belong to the darkness do wrong things. Don’t ever join in with them. Don’t do those things that are wrong and useless, but instead, tell everybody that those things are wrong.

Ephesians 5:13

But whenever light shines on something, everyone can see it.

Ephesians 5:3

So don’t sleep with somebody that is not your own wife or husband, as if you are married to them. And don’t be greedy, wanting lots of money and things. You are God’s own people, so don’t even think about doing bad things like that. That’s not the way for God’s people to live.

1 Peter 4:3

In the past you did lots of wrong things. You lived like people that didn’t know God. You just did whatever bad things you wanted to do. You slept with people that you were not married to, and you did with them what a husband and wife do together. You got drunk. You went to wild parties. You showed respect for statues that people made. That was really bad. But you don’t do those bad things now.