Ephesians Chapter 5 Back Next{5:1} Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
{5:2} Walk in love, even as
Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
{5:3} But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or
covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
{5:4} nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
{5:5} Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
{5:6} Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
{5:7} Therefore don't be partakers with them.
{5:8} For you were once
darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
{5:9} for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
{5:10} proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
{5:11} Have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
{5:12} For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
{5:13} But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
{5:14} Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
{5:15} Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
{5:16} redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
{5:17} Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
{5:18} Don't be
drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
{5:19} speaking to one another in psalms,
hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your
heart to the Lord;
{5:20} giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, to God, even the
Father;
{5:21} subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
{5:22} Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
{5:23} For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
{5:24} But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
{5:25} Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
{5:26} that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
{5:27} that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.
{5:28} Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
{5:29} For no man ever hated his own
flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
{5:30} because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
{5:31} "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."[
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{5:32} This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
{5:33} Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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