Ephesians 5:12 Cross References

Ephesians 5:12

12: It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.

Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people.

God will judge us for everything we do, including every secret thing, whether good or bad.

Can anyone hide from me? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?" asks the LORD.

The day will surely come when God, by Jesus Christ, will judge everyone's secret life. This is my message.

You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God's throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to what they had done.

You did it secretly, but I will do this to you openly in the sight of all Israel.'"

Meanwhile, the crowds grew until thousands were milling about and crushing each other. Jesus turned first to his disciples and warned them, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees--beware of their hypocrisy.
The time is coming when everything will be revealed; all that is secret will be made public.

So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.
Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen.
That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved.

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