Ephesians 5:11

Believers must not participate in the fruitless deeds of darkness but expose them. Light both refuses and reveals the works of darkness.

Cross-references · 40

• Rom 13:12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• 1 Tim 5:20Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
• 2 Th 3:6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• 2 Jn 1:10–11If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
• Rom 16:17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
• Titus 2:15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
• Rom 6:21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• Ps 1:1–2Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
• 2 Th 3:14And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
• Rev 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
• 2 Tim 3:5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
• Gal 6:8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
• Prov 4:14–15Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
• 2 Tim 4:2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
• John 3:19–21And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• 2 Cor 6:14–18Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• Lev 19:17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
• Prov 13:18Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
• Prov 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• 1 Th 5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
• Job 24:13–17They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
• Isa 3:10–11Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
• Prov 9:6–8Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• 1 Cor 5:9–11I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
• Luke 3:19But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
• Ps 94:20–21Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
• Eph 5:7Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
• Isa 29:21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
• Prov 25:12As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
• Eph 4:22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• Gen 20:16And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
• Ps 141:5Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
• Prov 15:12A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
• 1 Cor 10:20–21But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
• Prov 19:25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
• Matt 18:15Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
• Prov 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Rom 1:22–32Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Jer 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

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