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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 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. 5:9,11)

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

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

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Gen. 49:5‑7• ⁵Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
⁶My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men, And in their wantonness houghed oxen.
⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was violent; 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 that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;
²But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (Psa. 1:1‑2)

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Psa. 26:4‑5• ⁴I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;
⁵I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked. (Psa. 26:4‑5)

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Psa. 94:20‑21• ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?
²¹They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. (Psa. 94:20‑21)

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Prov. 4:14‑15• ¹⁴Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men:
¹⁵avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away. (Prov. 4:14‑15)

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Prov. 9:6• ⁶Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence. (Prov. 9:6)

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

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Rom. 16:17• ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, 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 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. 5:9‑11)

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1 Cor. 10:20‑21• ²⁰But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.
²¹Ye cannot drink the Lord's cup, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the Lord's table, and of the 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 participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
¹⁵and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?
¹⁶and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for *ye* are the living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.
¹⁷Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not what is unclean, and *I* will receive you;
¹⁸and I will be to you for a 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 enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.
¹⁴But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself; (2 Thess. 3:6,14)

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1 Tim. 6:5• ⁵constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety. (1 Tim. 6:5)

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2 Tim. 3:5• ⁵having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away. (2 Tim. 3:5)

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2 John 10‑11• ¹⁰If any one come to you and bring not this doctrine, do not receive him into the house, and greet him not;
¹¹for he who greets him partakes 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 not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues: (Rev. 18:4)

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Prov. 1:31• ³¹therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, 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, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him. (Isa. 3:10‑11)

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Rom. 6:21• ²¹What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* is death. (Rom. 6:21)

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Gal. 6:8• ⁸For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life: (Gal. 6:8)

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Eph. 4:22• ²²namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts; (Eph. 4:22)

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Job 24:13‑17• ¹³There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
¹⁴The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
¹⁵And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.
¹⁶In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
¹⁷For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death. (Job 24:13‑17)

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John 3:19‑21• ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.
²⁰For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
²¹but he that practises the truth comes to 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 themselves to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.
²⁴Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:
²⁵who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
²⁶For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;
²⁷and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
²⁸And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;
³²who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who 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 cast away therefore the works 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 drink drink by night; (1 Thess. 5:7)

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Gen. 20:16• ¹⁶And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, let that be to thee a covering of the eyes, in respect of all that are with thee, and with all; and 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 the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is for them in their calamities. (Psa. 141:5)

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Prov. 9:7‑8• ⁷He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked man getteth to himself a blot.
⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; 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; but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. (Prov. 13:18)

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Prov. 15:12• ¹²A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him; he will not go unto the wise. (Prov. 15:12)

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Prov. 19:25• ²⁵Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and 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, is a wise reprover upon an attentive ear. (Prov. 25:12)

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Prov. 29:1• ¹He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy. (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 pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility. (Isa. 29:21)

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Matt. 18:15• ¹⁵But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. (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 convict before all, that the rest also may have fear. (1 Tim. 5:20)

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2 Tim. 4:2• ²proclaim the word; be urgent in season and out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine. (2 Tim. 4:2)

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Titus 2:15• ¹⁵These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one 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;