“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”
For you yourselves know that sexual immorality, or any kind of impurity, or of greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among God's people — the vices: porneia ('sexual immorality,' illicit sexuality), akatharsia ('uncleanness,' moral defilement), and pleonexia ('greed,' covetousness) should be akoustos ('not even named,' not discussed) in the community, an absolute standard.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:3
“But fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints.” He has spoken of the bitter passion, of wrath; he now comes to the lesser evil: for that lust is the lesser evil, hear how Moses also in the law says, first, “You shall do no murder” Exodus 20:13, which is the work of wrath, and then, “You shall not commit adultery” Exodus 20:14, which is of lust. For as “bitterness,” and “clamor,” and “all malice,” and “railing,”…
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