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Efezským 5:7
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Nebývejtež tedy účastníci jejich.
Proto s nimi nemějte nic společného.
Nebuďte tedy jejich spoluúčastníky.
Bible Verse Review
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Ephesians 5:11, Numbers 16:26, Psalms 50:18, Proverbs 1:10-17, Proverbs 9:6, Proverbs 13:20, 1 Timothy 5:22, Revelation 18:4
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:8 - they are unclean Leviticus 11:16 - General Leviticus 18:3 - the doings Leviticus 20:25 - put difference Numbers 16:21 - Separate Job 24:14 - murderer Philippians 2:15 - sons 1 Peter 4:2 - no 2 Peter 1:19 - a light
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Be not ye therefore partakers with them. In their sins, and acts of disobedience; by keeping needless company with them; by abetting and encouraging sinful practices; by conniving at them, and not reproving for them; or by committing the same things.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Be not ye therefore partakers with them - Since these things displease God and expose to his wrath, avoid them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. Be not ye therefore partakers with them — Do not act as your fellow citizens do; nor suffer their philosophy, to it in vain words, ÎºÎµÎ½Î¿Î¹Ï Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Î¹Ï, with empty and illusive doctrines, to lead you astray from the path of truth.
That there was much need for such directions and cautions to the people of Ephesus has been often remarked. It appears, from Athenaeus, that these people were addicted to luxury, effeminacy c. He tells us that the famous Aspasia, who was herself of the Socratic sect, brought a vast number of beautiful women into Greece, and by their means filled the country with prostitutes, και εÏÎ»Î·Î¸Ï Î½ÎµÎ½ αÏο ÏÏν ÏÎ±Ï ÏÎ·Ï ÎµÌÏαιÏιδÏν Î·Ì ÎλλαÏ, lib. xiii. cap. 25. Ibid. cap. 31, he observes that the Ephesians had dedicated temples εÏαιÏα αÏÏοδιÏη, to the prostitute Venus and again, cap. 32, he quotes from Demosthenes, in Orat. contra Neaeram: ÏÎ±Ï Î¼ÎµÎ½ εÌÏαιÏÎ±Ï Î·ÌÎ´Î¿Î½Î·Ï ÎµÌνεκα εÏομεν, ÏÎ±Ï Î´Îµ ÏÎ±Î»Î»Î±ÎºÎ±Ï ÏÎ·Ï ÎºÎ±Î¸' ηÌμεÏαν ÏαλλακειαÏ, ÏÎ±Ï Î´Îµ Î³Ï Î½Î±Î¹ÎºÎ±Ï ÏÎ¿Ï ÏαιδοÏοιειÏθαι γνηÏιÏÏ, και ÏÏν ενδον ÏÏ Î»Î±ÎºÎ± ÏιÏÏην εÏεινΠ"We have whores for our pleasure, harlots for daily use, and wives for the procreation of legitimate children, and for the faithful preservation of our property." Through the whole of this 13th book of Athenaeus the reader will see the most melancholy proofs of the most abominable practices among the Greeks, and the high estimation in which public prostitutes were held; the greatest lawgivers and the wisest philosophers among the Greeks supported this system both by their authority and example. Is it not in reference to their teaching and laws that the apostle says: Let no man deceive you with vain words?