LITV - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Then be imitators of God, as beloved children,

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

5:3  But let not fornication, and all uncleanness, or greediness, be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

5:4  also baseness, and foolish talking, or joking (the things not becoming), but rather thanksgiving.

5:5  For be knowing this, that every fornicator, or unclean one, or covetous one , who is an idolater, has no 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  Then do not be partners with them;

5:8  for you then were darkness, but now 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  proving what is pleasing to the Lord.

5:11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them .

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

5:13  But all things being exposed by the light are clearly revealed, for everything having been revealed is light.

5:14  Because of this, He says, Arise, sleeping ones and stand up out of the dead ones, and Christ will shine on you. No OT passage

5:15  Then watch how carefully you walk, not as unwise, but as wise ones,

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

5:17  For this reason, do not be foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord is .

5:18  And "do not be drunk with wine," in which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, Prov. 23:31

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

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

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

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

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

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

5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up on its behalf,

5:26  that He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of the water in the Word,

5:27  that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such things, but that it be holy and without blemish.

5:28  So, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies, (he loving his wife loves himself),

5:29  for then no one hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Lord the church.

5:30  For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

5:31  "For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh." Gen. 2:24

5:32  The mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the church.

5:33  However, you also, everyone, let each love his wife as himself, and the wife, that she give deference to the husband.