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Eph. 5:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

And have no fellowshipx with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprovez them.

1 Cor. 5:9,11• ⁹I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
¹¹But now I have written to you, if anyone called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him], with such an one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:9,11)

1 Tim. 5:20• ²⁰Those that sin rebuke before all that the rest also may have fear. (1 Tim. 5:20)

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Eph. 5:7• ⁷Be not therefore fellow-partakers with them; (Eph. 5:7)

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Gen. 49:5‑7• ⁵Simeon and Levi [are] brethren, weapons of violence their swords.
⁶My soul, come not into their council; mine honour, be not united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will houghed oxen.
⁷Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce, and their rage, for [it was] cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. (Gen. 49:5‑7)

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Psa. 1:1‑2• ¹Blessed [is] the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked,{HR}And hath not stood in the way of sinners,{HR}And hath not sat in the seat of scorners.
²But in the law of Jehovah [is] his delight,{HR}And in his law doth he meditate by day and by night. (Psa. 1:1‑2)

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Psa. 26:4‑5• ⁴I have not sat with vain men,{HR}And with dissemblers I go not in.
⁵I have hated the congregation of evil doers,{HR}And with the wicked I sit not. (Psa. 26:4‑5)

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Psa. 94:20‑21• ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,{HR}Which frameth mischief by statute?
²¹They gather themselves against the soul of the righteous,{HR}And condemn the innocent blood. (Psa. 94:20‑21)

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Prov. 4:14‑15• ¹⁴Enter not into the path of the wicked,{HR}And go not into the way of evil [men];
¹⁵Avoid it, pass not by it,{HR}Turn from it, and pass away. (Prov. 4:14‑15)

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Prov. 9:6• ⁶Forsake follies and live,{HR}And go in the way of understanding. (Prov. 9:6)

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Jer. 15:17• ¹⁷{i}I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.{/i} (Jer. 15:17)

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Rom. 16:17• ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those that make divisions and occasions of stumblingblocks contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them. (Rom. 16:17)

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1 Cor. 5:9‑11• ⁹I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
¹⁰not absolutely with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious or idolatrous, since [in that case] ye must go out of the world.
¹¹But now I have written to you, if anyone called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him], with such an one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:9‑11)

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1 Cor. 10:20‑21• ²⁰but that what they sacrifice, they sacrificed to demons, and not to God; and I wish you not to be in fellowship with demons.
²¹Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and a cup of demons; ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of a table of demons. (1 Cor. 10:20‑21)

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2 Cor. 6:14‑18• ¹⁴Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers: for what partnership [is there] for righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship [hath] light with darkness?
¹⁵and what consent of Christ with Beliar? or what part for a believer with an unbeliever?
¹⁶and what agreement for God's temple with idols? For ye are [the] living God's temple, even as God said, I will dwell and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
¹⁷Wherefore come out from the midst of them and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch no unclean thing; and I will receive you
¹⁸and will be to you for Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:14‑18)

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2 Thess. 3:6,14• ⁶Now we charge you, brethren, in [the] name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us.
¹⁴And if any obeyeth not our word by the epistle, mark him to keep no company with him, that he may be ashamed; (2 Thess. 3:6,14)

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1 Tim. 6:5• ⁵wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that piety is gain. (1 Tim. 6:5)

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2 Tim. 3:5• ⁵having a form of piety, but having denied the power thereof; and from these turn away. (2 Tim. 3:5)

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2 John 10‑11• ¹⁰If Anyone cometh to you and bringeth not this doctrine, receive him not at home and greet him not;
¹¹for he that greeteth him partaketh in his wicked works. (2 John 10‑11)

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Rev. 18:4• ⁴And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues: (Rev. 18:4)

unfruitful.

Prov. 1:31• ³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way,{HR}And be filled with their own devices. (Prov. 1:31)

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Isa. 3:10‑11• ¹⁰Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
¹¹Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for the desert of his hands shall be given him. (Isa. 3:10‑11)

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Rom. 6:21• ²¹What fruit then had you at that time? [Things] of which ye are now ashamed, for the end of those things [is] death. (Rom. 6:21)

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Gal. 6:8• ⁸for he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life eternal. (Gal. 6:8)

works.

Eph. 4:22• ²²that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit, (Eph. 4:22)

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Job 24:13‑17• ¹³They are among the rebels against the light,{HR}They know not his ways, nor remain in his paths.
¹⁴With the light the murderer riseth,{HR}He slayeth the poor and needy,{HR}And in the night he is as a thief.
¹⁵And the adulterer’s eye watches for the twilight,{HR}Saying, "No eye observeth me,"{HR}And he layeth a veil over the face.
¹⁶In the dark he breaketh into houses,{HR}They keep themselves close by day, they know not the light.
¹⁷For morning is to them altogether death-shade,{HR}When he discerneth the terrors of the death-shade. (Job 24:13‑17)

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John 3:19‑21• ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that the light hath come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not unto the light lest his works should be convicted;
²¹but he that practiceth the truth cometh unto the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God. (John 3:19‑21)

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Rom. 1:22‑32• ²²Professing to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures].
²⁴Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness so that their bodies were dishonoured among them;
²⁵which exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and served and reverenced the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, Amen.
²⁶On this account God gave them up to vile passions; for both their females exchanged the natural use into the unnatural,
²⁷and likewise the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males working out unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet.
²⁸And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless;
³²which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:22‑32)

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Rom. 13:12• ¹²The night is far spent, and the day is near: let us therefore put off the deeds of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Rom. 13:12)

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1 Thess. 5:7• ⁷For they that sleep sleep by night, and they that are drunk drink by night; (1 Thess. 5:7)

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Gen. 20:16• ¹⁶And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved . (Gen. 20:16)

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Lev. 19:17• ¹⁷Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt earnestly rebuke thy neighbour, lest thou bear sin on account of him. (Lev. 19:17)

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Psa. 141:5• ⁵Let a righteous one smite me, [it is] a kindness;{HR}And rebuke me, a chief oil: let not my head refuse [it];{HR}For even yet my prayer [is] in their calamities . (Psa. 141:5)

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Prov. 9:7‑8• ⁷He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame;{HR}And he that reproveth a wicked [man], a blot to himself.
⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee;{HR}Reprove a wise [man], and he will love thee. (Prov. 9:7‑8)

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Prov. 13:18• ¹⁸Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction;{HR}But he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. (Prov. 13:18)

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Prov. 15:12• ¹²A scorner loveth not that one reprove him;{HR}Unto the wise he will not go. (Prov. 15:12)

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Prov. 19:25• ²⁵Smite a scorner, and the simple will become prudent;{HR}And reprove the intelligent, he will understand knowledge. (Prov. 19:25)

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Prov. 25:12• ¹²An ear-ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold{HR}[Is] a wise reprover on an attentive ear. (Prov. 25:12)

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Prov. 29:1• ¹{i}He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck,{HR}Shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.{/i} (Prov. 29:1)

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Isa. 29:21• ²¹that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for nought. (Isa. 29:21)

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Matt. 18:15• ¹⁵{i}But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.{/i} (Matt. 18:15)

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Luke 3:19• ¹⁹But Herod the Tetrarch being reproved by him as to Herodias the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done, (Luke 3:19)

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1 Tim. 5:20• ²⁰Those that sin rebuke before all that the rest also may have fear. (1 Tim. 5:20)

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2 Tim. 4:2• ²preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; convict, rebuke, encourage with all long-suffering and doctrine. (2 Tim. 4:2)

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Titus 2:15• ¹⁵These things speak, and exhort, and reprove, with all authority. Let no man despise thee. (Titus 2:15)

• It is all a part of our marvelous place and responsibility as being children of light. (“Remarks on Ephesians 5:8-21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reproveb them,

JND Translation Notes

Or "expose [them]" -- that is, expose (as by light) their true character. Elenko. see John 3.20.

W. Kelly Translation

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather also reprove;