Ephesians 5:3

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• Colossians 3:5
  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Ephesians 5:5
  For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.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.
• Galatians 5:19-21
  ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹ Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• 1 Corinthians 6:18
  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.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.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:7
  For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3
  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
• 1 Corinthians 6:13
  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.“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.
• Ephesians 5:12
  For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
• 1 Corinthians 10:8
  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
• Matthew 15:19
  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

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• Greed
• Pornography
• Saints
• Sexual immorality