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Ephesians 5:3-7 (MSG)

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³ Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. ⁴ Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, Christians have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect. ⁵ You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them--the usual variations on idolatry--will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God. ⁶ Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him. ⁷ Don't even hang around people like that.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 3) Purity / Sexual Immorality / Adultery - Not a hint of sexual immorality
(v. 4) Speaking / Gossip / Lying / Slander - Coarse joking / foolish talk out of place
(v. 5) Purity / Sexual Immorality / Adultery - No immoral, impure man has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God
(v. 5) Money / Greed / Debt / Wealth / Stealing / Covet - No greedy man has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 3) Followup: Purity (part II) (2011-09-13)
(v. 4) Followup: Purity (part II) (2011-09-13)
(v. 5) Followup: Purity (part II) (2011-09-13)
(v. 6) Followup: Purity (part II) (2011-09-13)
(v. 7) Followup: Purity (part II) (2011-09-13)