Ephesians 5
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v1
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
v2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
v3
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
v4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
v5
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.
v6
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
v7
Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
v8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
v9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
v10
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
v11
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
v12
For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
v13
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
v14
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
v15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
v16
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
v17
Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
v18
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
v19
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
v20
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
v21
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
v22
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
v23
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
v24
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
v25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
v26
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
v27
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 defect.
v28
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
v29
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
v30
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
v31
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”
v32
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
v33
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.