Ephesians 5:3

Which verses does Ephesians 5:3 point to?

The 20 strongest of 57, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Colossians 3:537 votes

   Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

2. Ephesians 5:524 votes

   For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

3. Galatians 5:19–2118 votes

   The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, …

4. 1 Corinthians 6:1814 votes

   Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

5. 1 Thessalonians 4:313 votes

   For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

6. 1 Thessalonians 4:713 votes

   For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

7. 1 Corinthians 6:1310 votes

   “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

8. Ephesians 5:129 votes

   For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

9. Matthew 15:197 votes

   For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

10. 1 Corinthians 10:87 votes

    We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

11. 1 Corinthians 6:9–106 votes

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

12. Revelation 2:216 votes
13. 1 Corinthians 5:15 votes
14. 1 Corinthians 5:10–115 votes
15. Ephesians 4:19–205 votes
16. Revelation 22:155 votes

    But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

17. Exodus 20:174 votes
18. Ezekiel 33:314 votes
19. Mark 7:21–224 votes
20. 2 Corinthians 12:214 votes

Which verses point to Ephesians 5:3?

The 10 strongest of 41.

• Galatians 5:19 33
• Ephesians 4:29 29
• Colossians 3:5 24
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3 21
• 2 Timothy 2:19 18
• 1 Corinthians 6:18 14
• Romans 3:10 12
• Ephesians 5:5 12
• Ephesians 5:12 12
• Luke 6:45 11