Ephesians 5:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ μὴ συγκοινωνεῖτε τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς ἀκάρποις τοῦ σκότους, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ ἐλέγχετε.

Transliteration

And mē sygkoinōneite the ergois the akarpois of the skotous, mallon de also elenchete

Grammar Details

• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *sygkoinōneite*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - participate with/take part in [continuous command]
• *ergois*: dative, neuter, plural - works/deeds
• *akarpois*: dative, neuter, plural - unfruitful/barren
• *skotous*: genitive, neuter, singular - of darkness
• *mallon*: adverb, comparative - rather/instead
• *de*: conjunction - but/and
• *elenchete*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - expose/reprove [continuous command]

Word Meanings

• *sygkoinōneite*: participate with/have fellowship with/partake in
• *ergois*: works/deeds/activities
• *akarpois*: unfruitful/barren/useless
• *skotous*: darkness/obscurity
• *mallon*: rather/instead/more
• *elenchete*: expose/reprove/refute/convict

Referenced Verses

• Rom 13:12 : 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
• 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;
• 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,
• Rom 6:21 : 21 what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those `is' death.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;
• Titus 2:15 : 15 these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!
• 2 John 1:10-11 : 10 if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!' 11 for he who is saying to him, `Hail,' hath fellowship with his evil works.
• Rev 18:4 : 4 And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,
• 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
• Lev 19:17 : 17 `Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.
• 2 Cor 6:14-18 : 14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness? 15 and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, 17 wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you, 18 and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'
• Gal 6:8 : 8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
• 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,
• 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
• 1 Thess 5:7 : 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,
• Gen 20:16 : 16 and to Sarah he hath said, `Lo, I have given a thousand silverlings to thy brother; lo, it is to thee a covering of eyes, to all who are with thee;' and by all this she is reasoned with.
• Eph 4:22 : 22 ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
• 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers -- 10 and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world -- 11 and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;
• 1 Cor 10:20-21 : 20 `no,' but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons. 21 Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;
• Job 24:13-17 : 13 They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths. 14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. 15 And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. 16 He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light. 17 When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
• Ps 1:1-2 : 1 O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; 2 But -- in the law of Jehovah `is' his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:
• Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not. 5 I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.
• Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Is a throne of mischief joined `with' Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute? 21 They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
• Ps 141:5 : 5 The righteous doth beat me `in' kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer `is' about their vexations.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
• Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. 15 Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
• Prov 9:6-8 : 6 Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding. 7 The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.
• Prov 13:18 : 18 Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.
• Prov 15:12 : 12 A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.
• Prov 19:25 : 25 A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.
• Prov 25:12 : 12 A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, `Is' the wise reprover to an attentive ear.
• Prov 29:1 : 1 A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
• Isa 29:21 : 21 Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
• Jer 15:17 : 17 I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, -- Alone I have sat, For `with' indignation Thou hast filled me.
• Matt 18:15 : 15 `And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;
• Luke 3:19 : 19 and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,
• John 3:19-21 : 19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; 21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
• Rom 1:22-32 : 22 professing to be wise, they were made fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. 24 Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; 25 who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen. 26 Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; 27 and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving. 28 And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; 29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, 30 evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful; 32 who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.
• Eph 5:7 : 7 become not, then, partakers with them,
• Gen 49:5-7 : 5 Simeon and Levi `are' brethren! Instruments of violence -- their espousals! 6 Into their secret, come not, O my soul! Unto their assembly be not united, O mine honour; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince. 7 Cursed `is' their anger, for `it is' fierce, And their wrath, for `it is' sharp; I divide them in Jacob, And I scatter them in Israel.