Key Verse Spotlight
Ephesians 5:7 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
Ephesians 5:7
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. {disobedience: or, unbelief}
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now {are ye} light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
(For the fruit of the Spirit {is} in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
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