Ephesians 5:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
  • Eph 5:3 : 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • Rev 20:12 : 12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
  • 2 Sam 12:12 : 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
  • Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
  • Luke 12:1-2 : 1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
  • Rom 1:24-27 : 24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

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    3Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

  • 1 Tim 5:24-25
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    24Some men's sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.

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    3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

    4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

    5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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    2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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    21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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    22Abstain from every form of evil.

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