Ephesians 5:1 ←
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Ephesians 5:2 ←
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.
Ephesians 5:3 ←
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Ephesians 5:4 ←
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 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.
Ephesians 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.
Ephesians 5:7 ←
Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
Ephesians 5:8 ←
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Ephesians 5:9 ←
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Ephesians 5:10 ←
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11 ←
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Ephesians 5:12 ←
For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
Ephesians 5:13 ←
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
Ephesians 5:14 ←
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Ephesians 5:15 ←
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
Ephesians 5:16 ←
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:17 ←
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:18 ←
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
Ephesians 5:19 ←
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:20 ←
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
Ephesians 5:21 ←
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
Ephesians 5:22 ←
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23 ←
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.
Ephesians 5:24 ←
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25 ←
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:26 ←
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Ephesians 5:27 ←
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
Ephesians 5:28 ←
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29 ←
For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,
Ephesians 5:30 ←
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
Ephesians 5:31 ←
“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.”
Ephesians 5:32 ←
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly.
Ephesians 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.
Public Domain