Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: fornication. Ephesians 5:5 For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Ephesians 4:19,20 Who despairing have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness. . . . Numbers 25:1 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, Deuteronomy 23:17,18 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel. . . . Matthew 15:19 For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood. Romans 1:29 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God. 1 Corinthians 5:10,11 I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world. . . . 1 Corinthians 6:9,13,18 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: . . . 1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 2 Corinthians 12:21 Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed. Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, . . . Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. 1 Thessalonians 4:3,7 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication: . . . Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright. Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 2 Peter 2:10 And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming. Revelation 2:14,21 But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication. . . . Revelation 9:21 Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts. Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie. covetousness. Ephesians 5:5 For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Exodus 18:21 And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens, Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. Joshua 7:21 For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and two hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up. 1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. Psalm 10:3 For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed. Psalm 119:36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness. Proverbs 28:16 A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he that hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days. Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit. Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully. Jeremiah 22:17 But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works. Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. Micah 2:2 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God. Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. Luke 12:15 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth. Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. Acts 20:33 I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as 1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God. Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. 1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but 1 Timothy 6:10 For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows. 2 Timothy 3:2 Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, Titus 1:7,11 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre: . . . Hebrews 13:5 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee. 1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily: 2 Peter 2:3,14 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not. . . . named. Ephesians 5:12 For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. Exodus 23:13 Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth. 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father's wife. as. Romans 16:2 That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that you assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she also hath assisted many, and myself also. Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel. 1 Timothy 2:10 But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works. Titus 2:3 The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well: Context Imitators of God…2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. 3But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: 4Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.… Cross References Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. Hebrews 13:5 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee. Lexicon Butδὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. among ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. you, ὑμῖν (hymin) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. as καθὼς (kathōs) Adverb Strong's Greek 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that. is proper πρέπει (prepei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's Greek 4241: It becomes, is fitting to, is right. Apparently a primary verb; to tower up, i.e. to be suitable or proper. among the saints, ἁγίοις (hagiois) Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's Greek 40: Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred. there must not be even a hint ὀνομαζέσθω (onomazesthō) Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular Strong's Greek 3687: From onoma; to name, i.e. Assign an appellation; by extension, to utter, mention, profess. of sexual immorality, Πορνεία (Porneia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's Greek 4202: Fornication, whoredom; met: idolatry. From porneuo; harlotry; figuratively, idolatry. [or] καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely. of any kind πᾶσα (pasa) Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. of impurity, ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's Greek 167: Uncleanness, impurity. From akathartos; impurity, physically or morally. or ἢ (ē) Conjunction Strong's Greek 2228: Or, than. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than. of greed. πλεονεξία (pleonexia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's Greek 4124: Covetousness, avarice, aggression, desire for advantage. From pleonektes; avarice, i.e. fraudulency, extortion. Additional Translations But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you, as also is proper to saints, But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints; But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints; But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people. But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; Jump to Previous Acts Covetousness Desire Evil Fitting Flesh Fornication God's Greed Immorality Improper Impurity Kind Lewdness Mentioned Once Others Ought Proper Property Right Saints Sexual Unbridled Unclean UncleannessJump to Next Acts Covetousness Desire Evil Fitting Flesh Fornication God's Greed Immorality Improper Impurity Kind Lewdness Mentioned Once Others Ought Proper Property Right Saints Sexual Unbridled Unclean UncleannessLinks Ephesians 5:3 NIVEphesians 5:3 NLT Ephesians 5:3 ESV Ephesians 5:3 NASB Ephesians 5:3 KJV Ephesians 5:3 Bible Apps Ephesians 5:3 Biblia Paralela Ephesians 5:3 Chinese Bible Ephesians 5:3 French Bible Ephesians 5:3 German Bible Alphabetical: a among any are as be because But even for God's greed hint holy immorality improper impurity is kind must named not of or people proper saints sexual there these you NT Letters: Ephesians 5:3 But sexual immorality and all uncleanness (Ephes. 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