But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
Ephesians 5:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But immorality (sexual vice) and all impurity [of lustful, rich, wasteful living] or greediness must not even be named among you, as is fitting and proper among saints (God's consecrated people). American Standard Version (1901) But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; Common English Bible Sexual immorality, and any kind of impurity or greed, shouldn’t even be mentioned among you, which is right for holy persons. Catholic Public Domain Version 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, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: |
But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
Do not covet your neighbour’s house. Do not covet your neighbour’s wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.
‘Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips. ,
A leader who lacks understanding is very oppressive, but one who hates dishonest profit prolongs his life.
But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.
For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new occupants, for from the least to the greatest, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
So my people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.
If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.
While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, , the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.
He then told them, ‘Watch out and be on your guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.’
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at him.
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
So you should welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints and assist her in whatever matter she may require your help. For indeed she has been a benefactor of many #– #and of me also.
And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles #– #a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
‘Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,’ and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they practised.
For know and recognise this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Just one thing: As citizens of heaven, live your life worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, in one accord, contending together for the faith of the gospel,
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality,
but with good works, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.
not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
It is necessary to silence them; they are ruining entire households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.
As an overseer of God’s household, he must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not an excessive drinker, not a bully, not greedy for money,
In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behaviour, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. They are to teach what is good,
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal.
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, two and a half kilograms of silver, and a bar of gold weighing half a kilogram, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.’
Shepherd God’s flock among you, not overseeing out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed for money but eagerly;
especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They are not afraid to slander the glorious ones;
They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!
They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality.
But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars #– #their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.’
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.
And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
However, his sons did not walk in his ways #– #they turned towards dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.