Ephesians 5:4

Ephesians 5:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
• New International Version (NIV)Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
• New King James Version (NKJV)neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

Context of Ephesians 5:4

2and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 5For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.

Ephesians 5:4 word by word

καὶ αἰσχρότης καὶ μωρολογία ἢ εὐτραπελία ἃ οὐκ ἀνῆκεν ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον εὐχαριστία.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Neitherκαίkai · andG2532
• filthinessαἰσχρότηςaischrotēs · obscenityG151
• foolish talkingμωρολογίαmōrologia · foolish talkG3473
• norἤē · orG2228
• jestingεὐτραπελίαeutrapelia · vulgar jestingG2160
• whichὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• areἀνήκωanēkō · be fittingG433
• notοὐou · noG3756
• butἀλλάalla · butG235
• ratherμᾶλλονmallon · more: ratherG3123
• giving of thanksεὐχαριστίαeucharistia · thankfulnessG2169

Cross-references for Ephesians 5:4

• Ephesians 4:29No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.
• Proverbs 12:23A shrewd person conceals knowledge, but a foolish heart publicizes stupidity.
• Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive, but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.
• Ecclesiastes 10:13The beginning of the words from his mouth is folly, but the end of his speaking is evil madness;
• Matthew 12:34Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
• Mark 7:22adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
• Colossians 3:8But now, put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
• James 3:4And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
• 2 Peter 2:7and if he rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the depraved behavior of the immoral
• Jude 1:10But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct — like irrational animals — by these things they are destroyed.
• Romans 1:28And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.
• Philemon 1:8For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,
• Ephesians 5:19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
• Ephesians 1:16I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.
• Psalms 33:1Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones; praise from the upright is beautiful.
• Psalms 92:1It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, Most High,

Commentaries on Ephesians 5:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Neither filthiness - · Any thing base or vile in words or acts. Foolish talking - · Scurrility, buffoonery, ridicule, or what tends to expose another to contempt. Nor jesting - · Artfully turned discourses or words, from , well or easily, and , I turn; words that can be easily turned to other meanings; double entendres; chaste words which, from their connection, and the manner in which they are used, convey an obscene or offensive meaning. It also means…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Neither filthiness - That is, obscene, or indecent conversation. Literally, that which is shameful, or deformed - ̓́ aischrotēsThe word does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. Nor foolish talking - This word - ́ mōrologia- does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It means that kind of talk which is insipid, senseless, stupid, foolish; which is not suited to instruct, edify, profit - the idle “chitchat” which is so common in the world. The…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-14Verses 3-14 Filthy lusts must be rooted out. These sins must be dreaded and detested. Here are not only cautions against gross acts of sin, but against what some may make light of. But these things are so far from being profitable. that they pollute and poison the hearers. Our cheerfulness should show itself as becomes Christians, in what may tend to God's glory. A covetous man makes a god of his money; places that hope, confidence, and delight, in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4God’s people should speak in ways that show they are thankful to God (see 4:29; 5:3, 12).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. filthiness--obscenity in act or gesture. foolish talking--the talk of fools, which is folly and sin together. The Greek of it, and of "filthiness," occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. nor--rather, "or" (compare Ep 5:3). jesting--Greek, "eutrapelia"; found nowhere else in the New Testament: implying strictly that versatility which turns about and adapts itself, without regard to principle, to the shifting circumstances of the moment, and to the…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ephesians 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings