Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 5
{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."[1] {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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Footnotes:
[1] {5:31} Genesis 2:24
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