AFV2020 - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children;

5:2  And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.

5:3  But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, do not permit it even to be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

5:4  Nor filthiness, nor foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming; but instead, thanksgiving.

5:5  For this you know, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

5:6  Do not let anyone deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

5:7  Therefore, do not be joint partakers with them.

5:8  For you were once darkness; but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

5:9  (Because 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  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them;

5:12  For it is shameful even to mention the things being done by them in secret.

5:13  But all of these things being exposed by the light are openly revealed.

5:14  Therefore He says, "You who are sleeping—wake up, and arise from the dead! And Christ shall shine upon you."

5:15  So then, take heed that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as those who are wise,

5:16  Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

5:17  For this reason, do not be foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

5:18  And do not be drunk with wine, in which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit:

5:19  Speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and offering praise to the Lord with your hearts;

5:20  Giving thanks at all times for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

5:21  Submit yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

5:22  Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord;

5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

5:24  For even as the church is subject to Christ, in the same way also let wives be subject to their own husbands in everything.

5:25  Husbands, love your own wives, in the same way that Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it;

5:26  So that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of the water by the Word;

5:27  That He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it might be holy and without blame.

5:28  In the same way, husbands are dutybound to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself;

5:29  For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord does the church.

5:30  For we are members of His body—of His flesh and of His bones.

5:31  For this reason shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall be one flesh.

5:32  This is a great mystery; but I am speaking in respect to Christ and the church.

5:33  Nevertheless, let each one of you love his wife even as himself; and let each wife see that she reverence her husband.