LEB - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,

5:2  and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

5:3  But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

5:4  and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which are not proper), but rather thanksgiving.

5:5  For this you know ⌞for certain⌟, that every sexually immoral person, or unclean person, or greedy person (who is an idolater), does not have an 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 is coming on the sons of disobedience.

5:7  Therefore do not be sharers with them,

5:8  for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light

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

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

5:11  And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose them.

5:12  For it is shameful even to speak about the things being done by them in secret,

5:13  but all things exposed by the light are made visible,

5:14  for everything made visible is light. Therefore it says, Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

5:15  Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,

5:16  making the most of the time because the days are evil.

5:17  Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

5:18  And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,

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

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

5:21  being subject to one another ⌞out of reverence for⌟ Christ

5:22  —wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

5:23  because the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church (he himself being the Savior of the body).

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

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

5:26  in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word;

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

5:28  Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

5:29  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ does the church,

5:30  because we are members of his body.

5:31  “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

5:32  (This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)

5:33  Only you also, each one of you, must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife ⌞must respect⌟ her husband.