<p>5:3- see on Josh. 23:7.</p><p><i>But fornication and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you- as is appropriate among saints</i>- These terms are all elsewhere used about sexual immorality, particularly in the context of cult prostitution. There was a tendency to mix Christian worship with the prostitution of the surrounding cults, just as there is for any Christian convert to mix their new faith with previous concepts of religion. This was particularly a problem in Corinth but clearly it was also elsewhere in the first century.</p><p>We need to let passages like Eph. 5:3&ndash;5 have their full weight with us. Fornication, covetousness, all uncleanness should not be &ldquo;named amongst us&rdquo;, in the same way Israel were not to take even the names of the Gentile idols onto their lips (Ex. 23:13) &ndash; &ldquo;but rather giving of thanks&rdquo;, knowing that those who do such things will not be in the Kingdom of God. The Exodus allusion suggests that idol worship with its associated sexual vices is what is in view in this passage, rather than young couples in love 'going too far'. A thankful attitude, thinking and speaking of those things with which we will eternally have to do, is to replace thinking and talking about all the things which shall not be our eternal sphere of thought in the Kingdom age. And yet our generation faces the temptation like none before it &ndash; to privately watch and read of those things, vicariously involved in them, whilst being under the illusion that we&rsquo;re not actually doing them ourselves. For this is what the entertainment industry is based around.</p>