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Ephesians 5:5-6

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5:5 For you can be confident of this one thing: 1  that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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5:6 Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. 2 

1 tn Grk “be knowing this.” See also 2 Pet 1:20 for a similar phrase: τοῦτο πρῶτον γινώσκοντες (touto prwton ginwskonte").

2 sn The expression sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” In this context it refers to “all those who are disobedient.” Cf. Eph 2:2-3.



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