Ephesians 5:12
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12 For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly,
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Ephesians 5:3
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Renounce Pagan Ways
3 But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.(A)
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Romans 2:16
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16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God through Christ Jesus judges the secret thoughts of all.(A)
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Jeremiah 23:24
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24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 12:14
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14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including[a] every secret thing, whether good or evil.(A)
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2 Samuel 12:12
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12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and in broad daylight.”(A)
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Revelation 20:12
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12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.(A)
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)
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Romans 1:24-27
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24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(A) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.(B)
26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse[a] for unnatural,(C) 27 and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse[b] with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.(D)
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Proverbs 9:17
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17 “Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”(A)
Luke 12:1-2
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A Warning against Hypocrisy
12 Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.(A) 2 Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered and nothing secret that will not become known.(B)
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