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Filthiness (aischrotēs). Old word from aischros (base), here alone in N.T.
Foolish talking (mōrologia). Late word from mōrologos (mōros, logos), only here in N.T.
Jesting (eutrapelia). Old word from eutrapelos (eu, trepō, to turn) nimbleness of wit, quickness in making repartee (so in Plato and Plutarch), but in low sense as here ribaldry, scurrility, only here in N.T. All of these disapproved vices are hapax legomena in the N.T.
Which are not befitting (ha ouk anēken). Same idiom (imperfect with word of propriety about the present) in Col 3:18. Late MSS. read ta ouk anēkonta like ta mē kathēkonta in Rom 1:28.