Ephesians 5:3
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
זָנָה
zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (...
בֶּצַע
betsaʻ
plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
נָאָה
nâʼâh
properly, to be at home, i.e. (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), i.e. beautiful
חָסִיד
châçîyd
properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָאָה nâʼâh
properly, to be at home, i.e. (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), i.e. beautiful
Study H4998 →זָנָה zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of ...
Study H2181 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →Cross References
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed u...
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimst...
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth...
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which ...
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of ...
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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