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

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1 Cor. 6:18• ¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:18)

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1 Thess. 4:3• ³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; (1 Thess. 4:3)

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Eph. 5:12• ¹²for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say. (Eph. 5:12)

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fornication.

Eph. 5:5• ⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:5)

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Eph. 4:19‑20• ¹⁹who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.
²⁰But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ, (Eph. 4:19‑20)

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Num. 25:1• ¹And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. (Num. 25:1)

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Deut. 23:17‑18• ¹⁷There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.
¹⁸Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah thy God. (Deut. 23:17‑18)

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Matt. 15:19• ¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)

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Mark 7:21• ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, (Mark 7:21)

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Acts 15:20• ²⁰but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. (Acts 15:20)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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Rom. 6:13• ¹³Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God. (Rom. 6:13)

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1 Cor. 5:10‑11• ¹⁰not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.
¹¹But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:10‑11)

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1 Cor. 6:9,13,18• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:9,13,18)

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1 Cor. 10:8• ⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (1 Cor. 10:8)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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Gal. 5:19‑21• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. (Col. 3:5)

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1 Thess. 4:3,7• ³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
⁷For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. (1 Thess. 4:3,7)

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Heb. 12:16• ¹⁶lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright; (Heb. 12:16)

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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2 Peter 2:10• ¹⁰and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities: (2 Peter 2:10)

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Rev. 2:14,21• ¹⁴But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.
²¹And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication. (Rev. 2:14,21)

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Rev. 9:21• ²¹And they repented not of their murders, nor of their witchcrafts, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. (Rev. 9:21)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

covetousness.

Eph. 5:5• ⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:5)

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Ex. 18:21• ²¹But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, (Ex. 18:21)

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Ex. 20:17• ¹⁷Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's wife, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's. (Ex. 20:17)

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Josh. 7:21• ²¹I saw among the spoils a beautiful mantle of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a golden bar of fifty shekels weight, and I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. (Josh. 7:21)

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1 Sam. 8:3• ³And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (1 Sam. 8:3)

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Psa. 10:3• ³For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah. (Psa. 10:3)

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Psa. 119:36• ³⁶Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to gain. (Psa. 119:36)

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Prov. 28:16• ¹⁶The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor: he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. (Prov. 28:16)

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Jer. 6:13• ¹³For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. (Jer. 6:13)

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Jer. 8:10• ¹⁰Therefore will I give their wives unto others, their fields to those that shall possess them; for every one, from the least even unto the greatest, is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. (Jer. 8:10)

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Jer. 22:17• ¹⁷But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)

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Ezek. 33:31• ³¹And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their dishonest gain. (Ezek. 33:31)

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Mic. 2:2• ²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. (Mic. 2:2)

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Mark 7:22• ²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly; (Mark 7:22)

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Luke 12:15• ¹⁵And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions. (Luke 12:15)

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Luke 16:14• ¹⁴And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him. (Luke 16:14)

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Acts 20:33• ³³I have coveted the silver or gold or clothing of no one. (Acts 20:33)

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1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:10)

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. (Col. 3:5)

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1 Tim. 3:3• ³not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money, (1 Tim. 3:3)

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1 Tim. 6:10• ¹⁰For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows. (1 Tim. 6:10)

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2 Tim. 3:2• ²for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, (2 Tim. 3:2)

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Titus 1:7,11• ⁷For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;
¹¹who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain. (Titus 1:7,11)

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Heb. 13:5• ⁵Let your conversation be without love of money, satisfied with your present circumstances; for *he* has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee. (Heb. 13:5)

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1 Peter 5:2• ²shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily; (1 Peter 5:2)

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2 Peter 2:3,14• ³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse; (2 Peter 2:3,14)

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Eph. 5:12• ¹²for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say. (Eph. 5:12)

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Ex. 23:13• ¹³And ye shall be on your guard as to everything that I have said unto you; and shall make no mention of the name of other gods--it shall not be heard in thy mouth. (Ex. 23:13)

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1 Cor. 5:1• ¹It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife. (1 Cor. 5:1)

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Rom. 16:2• ²that ye may receive her in the Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself. (Rom. 16:2)

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Phil. 1:27• ²⁷Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings; (Phil. 1:27)

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1 Tim. 2:10• ¹⁰but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works. (1 Tim. 2:10)

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Titus 2:3• ³that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right; (Titus 2:3)

• The apostle proceeds to warn the Ephesian saints against the dangers to which free, familiar converse might expose, unless sustained by the Holy Spirit. (“Remarks on Ephesians 5:1-7” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lustm, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

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As "greedy unsatisfied lust," ch. 4.19. It means the lust of having, but is not confined to gain. see Mark. 7.22.

W. Kelly Translation

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