not even a hint

Ephesians 5:3-7

Paul is continuing his list of "old clothes": take off sexual immorality, impurity and greed (he doesn't provide a contrasting piece of the new uniform for these. Perhaps because it would have been very obvious to his audience that they should replace these with purity, faithfulness and contentment); take off foolish talk, obscenity and coarse joking and replace them with thanksgiving.
Then Paul lays out a very scary warning: those who have these things as part of their uniform will not inherit the kingdom of Christ. The good news is that by placing my faith in Christ, the old uniform is done away with and while, at times I still act as if I belong to the old team, my salvation is secure because it depends on Christ's work, not mine.
The phrase that really stands out to me is "there must not be even a hint..." I know that there are times that I have dabbled around the edges and even crossed over into impurity. I know that if impurity was like a campfire that it wouldn't be hard to catch a whiff of smoke on my clothes because I've gotten too close (and sometimes so close that I've blistered up). I think that we (as the Church in North America - and maybe even beyond that) have lost sight of this standard of holiness - not just in the area of sexual immorality but also in areas of integrity, of business ethics, in materialism, in pride, in greed, etc. We justify that we are not sinning because we are not as bad as those who don't know Jesus (not sure that statistics would support that but I think we say it anyway) or that our sin isn't such a big deal in the scheme of things or that it is a matter of personal conviction or preference. Later in Ephesians 5 we'll learn that Jesus gave himself up for the Church to present her as pure, holy, radiant, spotless bride. Help us to live up that!