🛡️WEB · Ephesians 5:7
What does Ephesians 5:7 mean?
"Therefore don’t be partakers with them."
— Ephesians 5:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
Know 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.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
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.
Explanation
Ephesians 5:7 is a short, pointed command: "Therefore don't be partakers with them." On its own, this sentence seems incomplete, and that's because it is deliberately tied to what comes before it. Paul has just listed behaviors incompatible with the Christian life—sexual immorality, impurity, greed, obscene talk, and empty words that try to excuse such
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