Anderson - Ephesians - 5

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

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

5:3  But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

5:4  nor obscene language, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming; but rather the cheerful words of a thankful heart.

5:5  For you know this, that no lewd nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.

5:6  Let no one deceive you with vain words: for on account of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

5:7  Therefore, be not partakers with them.

5:8  For you were formerly darkness; but now you are 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  learning what is acceptable to the Lord;

5:11  and do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

5:12  for it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by them in secret.

5:13  But all these works, when reproved, are made manifest by the light: for every thing that makes manifest is light.

5:14  Wherefore, the scripture says: Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

5:15  See, then, that you walk circumspectly, not as unwise, but as wise men,

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

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

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

5:19  speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

5:20  giving thanks to our God and Father always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

5:21  being subject one to another in the fear of God.

5:22  Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord:

5:23  for the husband is the head of the wife, as the Christ also is the head of the church; and he is the savior of the body.

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

5:25  Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

5:26  that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word,

5:27  in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

5:28  So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

5:29  for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church:

5:30  because we are members of his body, being of his flesh, and of his bones.

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

5:32  Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church.

5:33  But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.