Ephesians 5:7
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Therefore do not be partakers with them.
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Here fellowship with wicked workers is forbidden; in Eph 5:11, with their wicked works.
Open source ↗We had several important exhortations in the close of the foregoing chapter, and they are continued in this: particularly, I. We have here an exhortation to mutual love and charity (Eph 5:1, Eph 5:2). II. Against all manner of uncleanness, with proper arguments and remedies proposed against such sins: and some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended (v. 3-20). III. The apostle directs to the conscientious discharge of relative duties, from Eph 5:21, throughout this, and in the beginning of the next chapter.
Open source ↗5:7 Don’t participate: Cp. 2 Cor 6:14–7:1.
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Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.