New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ephesians 5:4
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Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
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Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
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nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
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and shamefulness, and foolish talk, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Ephesians 5
2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
3 But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
5 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.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
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