Ephesians 5:12
10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord.
11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.
14 So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
- KJV
- For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
- WEB
- For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
- ASV
- for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.
- DARBY
- for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.
- BLB
- For it is shameful even to speak [of] the things being done by them in secret.
- ÅB
- For det som lønnlig drives av dem, er skammelig endog å si;
- OTB
- for det er skammelig selv å nevne hva de ulydige gjør i hemmelighet.
- B1930
- For det som lønnlig drives av dem, er skammelig endog å si;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 5:3
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.
Read in contextRomans 2:16
on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:24
“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:12
You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”
Read in context1 Peter 4:3
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
Read in contextRevelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
Read in contextRomans 1:24–27
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
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