Godbey - Ephesians - 5

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

5:2  and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.

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

5:4  and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks:

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

5:6  Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

5:7  Therefore be not partakers along with them.

5:8  For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

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

5:10  proving what is acceptable to the Lord;

5:11  and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather indeed convict them.

5:12  For it is disgraceful even to speak of those things which are done by them in concealment:

5:13  but all things being convicted by the light are made manifest; for everything made manifest is light.

5:14  Therefore he says, Awake, thou sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee.

5:15  Therefore see how you walk about circumspectly, not as unwise, but wise;

5:16  buying in the opportunity, because the days are evil.

5:17  Therefore be not unwise, but understand whatsoever is the will of the Lord.

5:18  Be not drunk with wine, in which there is riot, but be ye filled with the Spirit;

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

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

5:21  being submissive to one another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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

5:25  Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

5:26  in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word,

5:27  in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless.

5:28  So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:

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

5:30  because we are members of his body:

5:31  on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.

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

5:33  Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.