4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.


In Context

1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Ephesians 5:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:4also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, — the things not fit — but rather thanksgiving;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.