Ephesians 5:7

Ephesians 5:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore do not be partners with them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore do not become partners with them;
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Context of Ephesians 5:7

5You can be sure about this: If anyone has sex in a wrong way, that person does not belong to God's people. Nobody who does any kind of disgusting thing belongs to God's people. People who want many things just to please themselves are like people who worship an idol. They also do not belong to God's people. Nobody like that belongs to the kingdom where Christ and God rule. They will not receive the good things that God has prepared for his people. 6Do not let anyone have a chance to deceive you with a false message about those kinds of bad things. God will certainly punish people who do not obey him. So keep away from those kinds of people. 8Once your minds were completely in the dark. But now you belong to the Lord. As a result, you have become full of light. So now you must live as people who belong to the light. 9The light helps you to live in a way that is good, right and true.

Ephesians 5:7 word by word

μὴ οὖν γίνεσθε συμμέτοχοι αὐτῶν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Beγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• notμήmē · notG3361
• thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• partakersσυμμέτοχοςsummetochos · sharerG4830
• with themαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846

Cross-references for Ephesians 5:7

• Ephesians 5:11People whose minds are in the dark do things that have no good purpose. Keep away from wrong things like that. Instead, show how bad those things really are.
• Numbers 16:26Moses said to all the people, ‘Move away from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them. If you do not move away, God may destroy you together with them, because of all their sins.’
• Psalms 50:18If you see a robber, you run to help him! You become friends with adulterers.
• Proverbs 1:10My child, if sinners want you to join with them, do not agree!
• Proverbs 9:6Leave foolish ways so that you may live. Learn to understand what is right, so that you can do it.’
• Proverbs 13:20If you have wise people as your friends, you will become wise yourself. But if you have foolish friends, you will hurt yourself.
• 1 Timothy 5:22Do not hurry to put your hands on anyone to choose him as a leader of the church. Perhaps that man has done something wrong. Then people might think that you agree with his sins. You yourself must always be careful to do what is right and good.
• Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice which spoke from heaven. It said: ‘My people, leave the city! Come out! Do not do the bad things that the people of that city have done. Then you will not receive the terrible troubles that God sends to them.

Commentaries on Ephesians 5:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Be not ye therefore partakers with them - Do not act as your fellow citizens do; nor suffer their philosophy, to it in vain words, , with empty and illusive doctrines, to lead you astray from the path of truth. That there was much need for such directions and cautions to the people of Ephesus has been often remarked. It appears, from Athenaeus, that these people were addicted to luxury, effeminacy etc. He tells us that the famous Aspasia, who was herself…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Be not ye therefore partakers with them - Since these things displease God and expose to his wrath, avoid them.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. 7do not be partakers: Compare 2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Here fellowship with wicked workers is forbidden; in Ep 5:11, with their wicked works.Read the comment

Topics related to Ephesians 5:7

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In the dictionaries

• Arise
• Awake
• Dear
• Ephesians, Epistle to
• Fellowship
• Flesh
• Fruit
• Light
• Melody
• Redeem

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