🛡️WEB · Ephesians 5:11
What does Ephesians 5:11 mean?
"Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them."
— Ephesians 5:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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