Ephesians 5:4

Weymouth NT

Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting –they are all alike discreditable– and in place of these give thanks.

Cross References

Mark 7:22

covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly:

John 6:23

Yet a number of small boats came from Tiberias to the neighbourhood of the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Romans 1:28

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

2 Corinthians 1:11

while you on your part lend us your aid in entreaty for us, so that from many lips thanksgivings may rise on our behalf for the boon granted to us at the intercession of many.

2 Corinthians 9:15

Thanks be to God for His unspeakably precious gift!

Ephesians 1:16

offer never ceasing thanks on your behalf while I make mention of you in my prayers.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your words be good for benefiting others according to the need of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing to the hearers.

Philippians 4:6

Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.

Colossians 3:8

But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin –angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse– so that these may never soil your lips.

1 Thessalonians 3:9

For what thanksgiving on your behalf can we possibly offer to God in return for all the joy which fills our souls before our God for you,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

Philemon 1:8

Therefore, though I might with Christ's authority speak very freely and order you to do what is fitting,

Hebrews 13:15

Through Him, then, let us continually lay on the altar a sacrifice of praise to God, namely, the utterance of lips that give thanks to His Name.

2 Peter 2:18

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings –every kind of immorality– as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

2 Peter 2:7

But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.

Jude 1:10

Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing, and in things which, like the brutes, they understand instinctively–in all these they corrupt themselves.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved dense darkness of age-long duration.