Ephesians 5:3 — Greek Interlinear

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,”…