Ephesians 5:3 - Compare All Versions

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Don’t allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don’t talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn’t fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.

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

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints

But there must be no sexual sin among you, or any kind of evil or greed. Those things are not right for God’s holy people.

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

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints

But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].

Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.

And have nothing to do with sexual immorality, lust, or greed—for you are his holy ones and let no one be able to accuse you of them in any form.

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.