Eph 5:3 | HCSB | STEP | But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you , as is proper for saints .

c Lk 12:15; Rm 1:29; Eph 4:19; Col 3:5; 1Th 2:5; 2Pt 2:3,14

Ephesians 5:3

3 But sexual immorality ^a and any impurity ^b or greed ^c should not even be heard of ^{▼▼Or be named} among you, as is proper for ^{▼▼saint(s)/sanctification/sanctify/sanctified: The work of the Holy Spirit that separates believers in Jesus from the world; at the time of saving faith in Jesus, the believer is made a saint; therefore, all believers are saints. The believer participates with the Spirit in a process of transformation that continues until glorification. The goal of sanctification is progressive conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.}saints.