But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Once named - `let it not be even х meede (G3366)] named' (Ephesians 5:4; Ephesians 5:12). Words of evil lead to deeds. "Fornication," so deadly a sin in Christian ethics, was not deemed immoral in pagandom. "Uncleanness" and "covetousness" are resumed from Ephesians 4:19. The two are so allied that the Greek for "covetousness" х pleonexia (G4124)] is used sometimes in the Greek fathers for impurity. The common principle is longing to fill one's desire with objects of sense outside of God. 'Not be even named' applies better to impurity than to "covetousness." But the disjunctive "or" marks "covetousness" here as distinct from 'fornication and uncleanness.'