Ephesians 5

¹Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, ²and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.

³And whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; ⁴also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting,—the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving; ⁵for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. ⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, ⁷become not, then, partakers with them, ⁸for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, ⁹for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, ¹⁰proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict, ¹²for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of, ¹³and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light; ¹⁴wherefore he saith, ‘Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.’ ¹⁵See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil; ¹⁷because of this become not fools, but—understanding what is the will of the Lord, ¹⁸and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit, ¹⁹speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father.

²¹Subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. ²²The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, ²³because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body, ²⁴but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, ²⁷that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; ²⁸so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—himself he doth love; ²⁹for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord—the assembly, ³⁰because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; ³¹‘for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh;’ ³²this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; ³³but ye also, every one in particular—let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife—that she may reverence the husband.

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