Ephesians 5:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

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  • Rom 2:16 : 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
  • Eph 5:3 : 3 ¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
  • 2 Sam 12:12 : 12 For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
  • Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
  • Luke 12:1-2 : 1 ¶ In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, ‹Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.› 2 ‹For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.›
  • Rom 1:24-27 : 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

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