Ephesians 5:6
New International Version
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.

New Living Translation
Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.

English Standard Version
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Berean Standard Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Berean Literal Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

King James Bible
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

New King James Version
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

New American Standard Bible
See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

NASB 1995
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

NASB 1977
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Amplified Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments [that encourage you to sin], for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience [those who habitually sin].

Christian Standard Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.

American Standard Version
Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things the anger of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let anyone trick you with foolish talk. God punishes everyone who disobeys him and says foolish things.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

English Revised Version
Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't let anyone deceive you with meaningless words. It is because of sins like these that God's anger comes to those who refuse to obey him.

Good News Translation
Do not let anyone deceive you with foolish words; it is because of these very things that God's anger will come upon those who do not obey him.

International Standard Version
Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God becomes angry with those who disobey.

Literal Standard Version
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things comes the anger of God on the sons of the disobedience;

Majority Standard Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

New American Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.

NET Bible
Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

New Revised Standard Version
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.

New Heart English Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Weymouth New Testament
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.

World English Bible
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Young's Literal Translation
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Imitators of God
5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. 7Therefore do not be partakers with them.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 27:9
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'

Jeremiah 29:8
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.

Jeremiah 37:9
This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, 'The Chaldeans will go away for good,' for they will not!

Romans 1:18
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

Ephesians 2:2
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

Colossians 3:6
Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.


Treasury of Scripture

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.

no.

Jeremiah 29:8,9,31
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed…

Ezekiel 13:10-16
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: …

Micah 3:5
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

vain.

2 Kings 18:20
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

Jeremiah 23:14-16
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah…

cometh.

Numbers 32:13,14
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed…

Joshua 22:17,18
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD, …

Psalm 78:31
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

children.

Ephesians 2:2,3
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: …

disobedience.

Hebrews 3:19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

1 Peter 2:8
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

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Ephesians 5
1. After general exhortations to love;
3. to flee sexual immorality;
4. and all uncleanness;
7. not to converse with the wicked;
15. to walk carefully;
18. and to be filled with the Spirit;
22. he descends to the particular duties, how wives ought to obey their husbands;
25. and husbands ought to love their wives,
32. even as Christ does his church.














(6) Let no man deceive you with vain words.--It seems likely that St. Paul has in view, not mere worldly condonation of evil or low heathen morality, but some anticipation of that Antinomian form of Gnosticism which held that the things done in the body, being evil only by the irresistible, inevitable gravitation of matter to evil, could not touch the soul. We know that in the Colossian Church there was an anticipation of the more ascetic Gnosticism (Colossians 2:21; comp. also 1Timothy 4:1-5). As the earlier Judaistic rigour had assumed this later form, so the earlier Antinomianism (of Romans 6:1) may probably have passed into the more systematic and speculative Antinomianism of the Gnostic type. (Comp. Philippians 3:18-19.) In this same spirit St. John, himself familiar with the life of Ephesus, writes earnestly: "Let no man deceive you; he that doeth righteousness is righteous" (1John 3:7). Hero the Apostle warns them that it is for these sins that "the wrath of God is coming on the children of disobedience," i.e. (see Ephesians 2:2), on the heathen; and urges the Christians not to fall back, by being "partakers with them" both of their sin and their punishment, into the gross heathen darkness out of which they had been saved. . . . Verse 6. - Let no man deceive you with empty words. No man, whether pagan or nominal Christian: the pagan defending a life of pleasure as the only thing to be had with even a smack of good in it; the Christian mitigating pleasant sins, saying that the young must have an outlet for their warm feelings, that men in business must put all their soul into it, and that life must be brightened by a little mirth and jollity. As opposed to what the apostle has laid down (ver. 5), such words are empty, destitute of all solidity or truth. For on account of these things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. The sophistry is swept away by an awful fact - the wrath cometh, is coming, and will come too in the future life. It comes in the form of natural punishment, Nature avenging her broken laws by deadly diseases; in the form, too, of disappointment, remorse, desolation of soul; and in the form of judgments, like that which befell Sodom and Gomorrah, or the sword which never departed from David's house.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
{Let} no one
Μηδεὶς (Mēdeis)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3367: No one, none, nothing.

deceive
ἀπατάτω (apatatō)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 538: To deceive, cheat, lead into error. Of uncertain derivation; to cheat, i.e. Delude.

you
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

with empty
κενοῖς (kenois)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2756: Apparently a primary word; empty.

words,
λόγοις (logois)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

because of
διὰ (dia)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

such things
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

God’s
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

wrath
ὀργὴ (orgē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3709: From oregomai; properly, desire, i.e., violent passion (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment.

comes
ἔρχεται (erchetai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

on
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

sons
υἱοὺς (huious)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship.

of disobedience.
ἀπειθείας (apeitheias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 543: Willful unbelief, obstinacy, disobedience. From apeithes; disbelief.


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