ASV - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

5:2  and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

5:3  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

5:4  nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

5:5  For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

5:6  Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

5:7  Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

5:8  for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

5:9  (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

5:10  proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

5:11  and 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 made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.

5:14  Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

5:15  Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

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

5:17  Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

5:18  And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

5:19  speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

5:20  giving thanks always for 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 in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

5:24  But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, 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 church to himself a glorious church, 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 that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

5:29  for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

5:30  because we are members of his body.

5:31  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

5:32  This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

5:33  Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.