EMTV - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

5:2  And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

5:3  But sexual immorality and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

5:4  neither wickedness, nor foolish talk or crude joking, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving.

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

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

5:7  Therefore do not be participants with them.

5:8  For you were once 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, righteousness, and truth,

5:10  proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

5:11  And have no partnership with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

5:12  For it is shameful even to speak of those things being done by them in secret.

5:13  But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

5:14  Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5:23  because the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

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

5:25  Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

5:26  in order that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of water by the word,

5:27  that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and blameless.

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

5:29  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also 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 A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."

5:32  This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and to the church.

5:33  Nevertheless you also individually, let each one love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respect her husband.