Verse 3

But sexual immorality, and all impurity, or greed, let it not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints;

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Men seksuell umoral, og all urenhet, eller grådighet, la det ikke engang nevnes blant dere, som det sømmer seg for hellige;

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Seksuell umoral, all slags urenhet eller grådighet, skal ikke engang nevnes blant dere, som det sømmer seg for de hellige.

• Norsk King James

  Men hor, all urenhet, eller begjær, la det ikke engang bli nevnt blant dere, slik som det passer seg for hellige;

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men hor og all umoral eller grådighet må ikke engang nevnes blant dere, slik det passer seg for de hellige,

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Men hor og all slags urenhet eller grådighet, la det ikke engang bli nevnt blant dere, slik det sømmer seg for hellige.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Seksuell umoral, all slags urenhet eller grådighet skal ikke engang nevnes blant dere, slik det sømmer seg for de hellige.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Men hor, all urenhet eller griskhet, la det ikke engang bli nevnt blant dere, slik det sømmer seg for de hellige.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Men umoral, all urenslighet og grådighet skal aldri engang nevnes blant dere, slik det hører seg til for hellige.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Men hor og all urenhet eller grådighet må ikke engang nevnes blant dere, som det sømmer seg for hellige mennesker;

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Men hor og all urenhet eller grådighet må ikke engang nevnes blant dere, som det sømmer seg for hellige mennesker;

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Men hor og all urenhet eller griskhet, la dem ikke engang bli nevnt blant dere, som det sømmer seg for de hellige.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But sexual immorality, all impurity, or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Men hor og all slags urenhet eller grådighet, la det ikke engang bli nevnt blant dere, slik det sømmer seg for hellige.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men Horeri og al Ureenhed eller Gjerrighed nævnes end ikke iblandt Eder, som det sømmer de Hellige,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Men hor og all urenhet eller grådighet, la det ikke engang nevnes blant dere, som det sømmer seg for hellige.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  La det ikke være snakk om seksuell umoral, urenhet eller griskhet blant dere, slik det sømmer seg for hellige.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hor og all urenhet eller grådighet må ikke engang nevnes blant dere, som det sømmer seg for hellige.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Men hor, all slags urenhet eller grådighet må ikke engang nevnes blant dere, slik det sømmer seg for de hellige.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Men la ikke seksuell umoral og all urenhet eller griskhet engang bli nevnt blant dere, slik det sømmer seg for de hellige;

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  So that fornicacion and all vnclennes or coveteousnes be not once named amonge you as it be commeth saynctes:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  As for whordome and all vnclennes, or couetousnes, let it not be named amoge you, as it becommeth sayntes:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth Saintes,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth saintes:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

Referenced Verses

• Col 3:5 : 5 Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
• 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousy, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For this you know, that no sexually immoral, unclean, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; 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.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Eph 5:12 : 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
• 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Do not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
• 1 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 Yet not entirely with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the greedy, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• 2 Tim 3:2 : 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
• Luke 12:15 : 15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
• Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they ridiculed him.
• Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
• Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• Rom 16:2 : 2 That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she needs from you: for she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.
• 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is commonly reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife.
• Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover, you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• Exod 20:17 : 17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
• Exod 23:13 : 13 And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.
• Num 25:1 : 1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit immorality with the daughters of Moab.
• Deut 23:17-18 : 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
• Josh 7:21 : 21 When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, 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 hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
• 1 Sam 8:3 : 3 But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
• Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.
• Ps 119:36 : 36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
• Prov 28:16 : 16 The prince who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.
• Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
• Jer 8:10 : 10 Therefore, I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them: for everyone from the least to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
• Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
• Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
• Mic 2:2 : 2 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.
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money;
• Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
• Titus 2:3 : 3 The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of good things;
• Heb 12:16 : 16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
• Heb 13:4-5 : 4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with what you have. For He has said, 'I will never leave you, nor forsake you.'
• 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for dishonest gain, but with a ready mind;
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• Eph 4:19-20 : 19 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But you have not so learned Christ,
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and sexually immoral, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
• 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
• 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
• 1 Tim 2:10 : 10 But what is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy for dishonest gain; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
• 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil: which while some coveted after, they have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
• Rev 2:21 : 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
• Rev 9:21 : 21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
• 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 And especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed, and not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
• Acts 20:33 : 33 I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.