Sha'ul�s Letter to the Ephesians, Chapter 5
{5:1} Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. {5:2} Walk
in love, even as Messiah 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 holy ones; {5:4} nor
filthiness, nor foolish talking, or 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 Messiah and
God. {5:6} Let no man deceive you with empty words. For because of
these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
{5:7} Don't be therefore 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 is
revealed is light. {5:14} Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep,
and arise from the dead, and Messiah 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 an abandoned life,
but be filled with the Spirit, {5:19} speaking to one another in
psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in
your heart to the Lord; {5:20} giving thanks always for all things in
the name of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, to God, even the Father;
{5:21} subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Messiah.
{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 Messiah also is
the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. {5:24}
But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so let the wives also be to
their own husbands in everything.
{5:25} Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah 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 ought husbands also 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 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." {5:32} This mystery is
great, but I speak in regard of Messiah 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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