MKJV - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Therefore be followers of God, as dear children.

5:2  And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.

5:3  For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

5:4  neither baseness, foolish talking, jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

5:5  For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous one (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

5:6  Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

5:7  Therefore do not be partakers 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 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 reprove them.

5:12  For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

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

5:14  Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."

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

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

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

5:18  And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, 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  always giving thanks for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

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

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

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

5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

5:26  that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

5:27  that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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

5:29  For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church.

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

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

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

5:33  But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.