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Ephesians 5:3

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.

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ASV

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

KJV

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ΠορνείαPorneiaSexual immoralityG4202 →
δὲdehoweverG1161 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
ἀκαθαρσίαakatharsiaimpurityG167 →
πᾶσαpasaallG3956 →
ἢēorG2228 →
πλεονεξίαpleonexiacovetousnessG4124 →
μηδὲmēdenot evenG3366 →
ὀνομαζέσθωonomazesthōshould be namedG3687 →
ἐνenamongG1722 →
ὑμῖνhuminyouG4771 →
καθὼςkathōsasG2531 →
πρέπειprepeiis properG4241 →
ἁγίοιςhagioisto saintsG40 →

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Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.Ephesians 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.Galatians 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.1 Thessalonians 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;1 Thessalonians 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.1 Corinthians 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.Hebrews 13:5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”Ephesians 5:12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.Revelation 2:21Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.1 Corinthians 6:9–10Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.1 Corinthians 5:10–11I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.Ephesians 4:19–20Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.Mark 7:21–22For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

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