Ephesians 5:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πορνεία δὲ, καὶ πᾶσα ἀκαθαρσία, ἢ πλεονεξία, μηδὲ ὀνομαζέσθω ἐν ὑμῖν, καθὼς πρέπει ἁγίοις·

Transliteration

Porneia de, and pasa akatharsia, or pleonexia, mēde onomazesthō among you, kathōs prepei hagiois

Grammar Details

• *Porneia*: nominative, feminine, singular - sexual immorality
• *de*: conjunction, postpositive - but/and/now
• *pasa*: nominative, feminine, singular - all/every
• *akatharsia*: nominative, feminine, singular - uncleanness/impurity
• *pleonexia*: nominative, feminine, singular - greed/covetousness
• *mēde*: negative particle - not even/nor
• *onomazesthō*: present imperative, passive, 3rd singular - let it be named [command]
• *hagiois*: dative, masculine, plural - to holy ones/saints
• *prepei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd singular - is fitting/proper/becoming

Word Meanings

• *Porneia*: sexual immorality/fornication/prostitution
• *akatharsia*: uncleanness/impurity/moral corruption
• *pleonexia*: greed/avarice/covetousness/desire for more
• *mēde*: not even/nor/and not
• *onomazesthō*: let it be named/mentioned
• *hagiois*: holy ones/saints/consecrated people

Referenced Verses

• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth {G1437} is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: {G3430} fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21 envyings, {G5408} drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did {G2532} forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
• Eph 5:12 : 12 for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.
• 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
• 1 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 {G2532} not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• 2 Tim 3:2 : 2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
• Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
• Luke 12:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's {G846} life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.
• Acts 15:20 : 20 but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, {G4202} wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
• Rom 16:2 : 2 that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in {G3739} whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and {G2532} of mine own self.
• 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife.
• Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
• Exod 20:17 : 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
• Exod 23:13 : 13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
• Num 25:1 : 1 And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:
• Deut 23:17-18 : 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
• Josh 7:21 : 21 when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then 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.
• 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
• Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
• Ps 119:36 : 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.
• Prov 28:16 : 16 The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great oppressor; [But] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
• Jer 6:13 : 13 For 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 8:10 : 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them 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 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.
• Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
• Titus 2:3 : 3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• Heb 12:16 : 16 lest [there] [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
• Heb 13:4-5 : 4 [None Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 5 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
• 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 lest again when I come {G3825} my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;
• Eph 4:19-20 : 19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye did not so learn Christ;
• Rev 22:15 : 15 {G1161} Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
• 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
• 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God {G2564} called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
• 1 Tim 2:10 : 10 but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
• 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
• Rev 2:21 : 21 And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.
• Rev 9:21 : 21 and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
• 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they {G0} tremble not to rail at dignities:
• Acts 20:33 : 33 I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.