“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
Therefore do not be partners with them — the exhortation: mē ginesthe sunkoinōnoi ('do not become fellow-participants,' 'do not share in') with perpetrators of such vice.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:7
“Be not ye, therefore, partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord.” Observe how wisely he urges them forward; first, from the thought of Christ, that you love one another, and do injury to no man; then, on the other hand, from the thought of punishment and hell-fire. “For you were once darkness,” says he, “but are now light in the Lord.” Which is what he says also in the Epistle to the Romans; “What fruit then had ye at that time in the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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