This is a battle I am meant to fight
Ephesians 5
4Let there be no filthiness (obscenity, indecency) nor foolish and sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting or becoming; but instead voice your thankfulness [to God].
5For be sure of this: that no person practicing sexual vice or impurity in thought or in life, or one who is covetous for he is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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7. So do not associate or be sharers with them.
8For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
9For the fruit of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.
10And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].
11Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] [d]expose and reprove and convict them.
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Do not associate...
Do not stand...
Be Christ's light...
Expose, reprove, and convict them
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baci,
Sarah E F N Powell
4Let there be no filthiness (obscenity, indecency) nor foolish and sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting or becoming; but instead voice your thankfulness [to God].
5For be sure of this: that no person practicing sexual vice or impurity in thought or in life, or one who is covetous for he is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
{...}
7. So do not associate or be sharers with them.
8For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
9For the fruit of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.
10And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].
11Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] [d]expose and reprove and convict them.
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Do not associate...
Do not stand...
Be Christ's light...
Expose, reprove, and convict them
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baci,
Sarah E F N Powell