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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 whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:18)

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

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Eph. 5:12• ¹²for the things in secret done by them it is shameful even to speak of, (Eph. 5:12)

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fornication.

Eph. 5:5• ⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:5)

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Eph. 4:19‑20• ¹⁹who, as being past remorse, have given themselves up to lasciviousness unto [the] working of every uncleanness with greediness.
²⁰But ye have not thus learnt the Christ, (Eph. 4:19‑20)

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Num. 25:1• (Num. 25:1)

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Deut. 23:17‑18• (Deut. 23:17‑18)

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Matt. 15:19• ¹⁹{i}For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;{/i} (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 write to them that they may 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, ill-will; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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Rom. 6:13• ¹³nor be yielding your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive out of [the] dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (Rom. 6:13)

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1 Cor. 5:10‑11• 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. 5:10‑11)

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1 Cor. 6:9,13,18• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will bring to nought 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 whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:9,13,18)

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

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (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, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, 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 that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; (Col. 3:5)

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

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

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴[Be] marriage in all [things] held in honour, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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2 Peter 2:10• ¹⁰and especially those that walk after flesh in lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not speaking railingly of dignities, (2 Peter 2:10)

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Rev. 2:14,21• ¹⁴But I have a few things against thee, [because] thou hast there {i}some{/i} {i}that{/i} hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.
²¹And I gave her space to repent, and she willeth not to 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 sorceries nor of their fornication nor of their thefts. (Rev. 9:21)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

covetousness.

Eph. 5:5• ⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:5)

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Ex. 18:21• (Ex. 18:21)

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Ex. 20:17• (Ex. 20:17)

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Josh. 7:21• (Josh. 7:21)

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1 Sam. 8:3• (1 Sam. 8:3)

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Psa. 10:3• (Psa. 10:3)

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Psa. 119:36• (Psa. 119:36)

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Prov. 28:16• (Prov. 28:16)

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Jer. 6:13• (Jer. 6:13)

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Jer. 8:10• (Jer. 8:10)

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Jer. 22:17• (Jer. 22:17)

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Ezek. 33:31• (Ezek. 33:31)

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Mic. 2:2• (Mic. 2:2)

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Mark 7:22• ²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: (Mark 7:22)

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Luke 12:15• ¹⁵{i}And{/i} 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• ¹⁴{i}And the Pharisees also, who were covetous,{/i} heard all these things, {i}and{/i} sneered at him. (Luke 16:14)

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Acts 20:33• ³³I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel; (Acts 20:33)

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1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (1 Cor. 6:10)

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; (Col. 3:5)

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1 Tim. 3:3• ³not given to wine, no striker, but gentle, not contentious, not fond of money, (1 Tim. 3:3)

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1 Tim. 6:10• ¹⁰For a root of all evils is the love of money, which some eagerly seeking were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains. (1 Tim. 6:10)

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2 Tim. 3:2• ²For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (2 Tim. 3:2)

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Titus 1:7,11• ⁷For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not passionate, not quarrelsome, not a striker, not a seeker of base lucre;
¹¹whose mouths must be stopped, who are such as overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. (Titus 1:7,11)

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Heb. 13:5• ⁵Free from love of money [be] your course of life, satisfied with present things, for he hath said, I will not leave thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee: (Heb. 13:5)

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1 Peter 5:2• ²Tend the flock of God that [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 in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition slumbereth not.
¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse; (2 Peter 2:3,14)

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Eph. 5:12• ¹²for the things in secret done by them it is shameful even to speak of, (Eph. 5:12)

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Ex. 23:13• (Ex. 23:13)

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1 Cor. 5:1• ¹Universal report is of fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. (1 Cor. 5:1)

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Rom. 16:2• ²that ye may welcome her in [the] Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she may need you; for she herself too hath been a helper of many and of myself. (Rom. 16:2)

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Phil. 1:27• ²⁷Only conduct yourselves worthily of the gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you or absent, I may hear of your concerns, that ye stand in one spirit, with one soul striving together with the faith of the gospel; (Phil. 1:27)

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1 Tim. 2:10• ¹⁰but, what becometh women professing godliness, by good works. (1 Tim. 2:10)

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Titus 2:3• ³that aged women likewise be in deportment reverent, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good; (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;