Ephesians 5:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Ephesians 5:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 5:3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Romans 2:16
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
2 Samuel 12:12
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

Topics

Adultery Commandments Copulation Crime Foreigner Fornication Gentiles Harlot (prostitute)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-20)

These verses contain a caution against all manner of uncleanness, with proper remedies and arguments proposed: some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended. Filthy lusts must be suppressed, in order to the supporting of holy love. Walk in love, and shun fornication and all uncleanness. Fornication is folly committed between unmarried persons. All uncleanness includes all other sor…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. The Greek order is, “For the things done in secret by them, it is a shame even to speak of.” The “for” gives his reason for “not naming” (compare Ep 5:3) in detail the works of darkness, whereas he describes definitely (Ep 5:9) “the fruit of the light” [Bengel]. “Speak of,” I think, is used here as “speaking of without reproving,” in contrast to “even reprove them.” Thus the “for” expresses th…