Ephesians 5:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.

New Living Translation
Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.

English Standard Version
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Berean Study Bible
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

New American Standard Bible
But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints;

NASB 1995
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

NASB 1977
But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

Amplified Bible
But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].

Christian Standard Bible
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

Contemporary English Version
You are God's people, so don't let it be said that any of you are immoral or indecent or greedy.

Good News Translation
Since you are God's people, it is not right that any matters of sexual immorality or indecency or greed should even be mentioned among you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't let sexual sin, perversion of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you. This is not appropriate behavior for God's holy people.

International Standard Version
Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.

NET Bible
But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

New King James Version
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

King James 2000 Bible
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;

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

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

American King James Version
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;

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

A Faithful Version
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, do not permit it even to be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

Darby Bible Translation
But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

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

Webster's Bible Translation
But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth Saintes,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth saintes:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
As for whordome and all vnclennes, or couetousnes, let it not be named amoge you, as it becommeth sayntes:

Tyndale Bible of 1526
So that fornicacion and all vnclennes or coveteousnes be not once named amonge you as it be commeth saynctes:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, do not let it even be named among you, as is proper to holy ones;

Berean Literal Bible
But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you, as also is proper to saints,

Young's Literal Translation
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Smith's Literal Translation
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;

Literal Emphasis Translation
However, fornication and all impurity or covetous greed, let it not even be named among you just as is proper to saints,

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

Catholic Public Domain Version
But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But fornication, all impurity and greed are not even to be named at all among you, as is appropriate for Holy Ones,

Lamsa Bible
But let not immorality or any uncleanness or covetousness be heard of among you, as becomes saints;

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

Godbey New Testament
But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

Haweis New Testament
But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

Mace New Testament
But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

Weymouth New Testament
But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

Worrell New Testament
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;

Worsley New Testament
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:
















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