This verse is often misinterpreted as requiring total isolation from all non-Christians, contradicting biblical calls to love neighbors, evangelize the lost, and follow Jesus' example of dining with sinners; another error views it as license for self-righteous judgment without personal holiness or grace, or limits its application to extreme vices while tolerating subtler worldly compromises in daily life.
Ephesians 5:7
King James Version (1769)
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
Ephesians 5:7 commands believers not to participate in the sinful behaviors of unbelievers, who are characterized as children of disobedience under God's coming wrath, emphasizing a clear separation from immorality, impurity, greed, and foolish talk to live instead as children of light with an inheritance in Christ's kingdom.