Murdock - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children:

5:2  and walk in love; as the Messiah also hath loved us, and hath given up himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet odor.

5:3  But whoredom, and all impurity, and avarice let them not be at all heard of among you, as it becometh the saints;

5:4  Neither obscenities, nor words of folly, or of division, or of scurrility, which are not useful; but instead of these, thanksgiving.

5:5  For this know ye, that every man who is a whoremonger, or impure, or avaricious, or a worshipper of idols, hath no inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

5:6  Let no man deceive you with vain words; for it is on account of these things that the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

5:7  Therefore be ye not like them.

5:8  For ye were heretofore darkness, but now are ye light in our Lord: therefore, as the children of light, so walk ye.

5:9  For the fruits of the light are in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth.

5:10  And search out what is pleasing before our Lord:

5:11  And have no commerce with the works of darkness which are unfruitful, but reprove them.

5:12  For the things they do in secret, it is nauseous even to mention.

5:13  For all things are exposed and made manifest by the light: and whatever maketh manifest, is light.

5:14  Wherefore it is said: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and the Messiah will illuminate thee.

5:15  See therefore, that ye walk circumspectly; not like the simple,

5:16  but like the wise, who purchase their opportunity; because the days are evil.

5:17  Therefore, be not lacking in understanding; but understand ye what is the pleasure of God.

5:18  And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness; but be ye filled with the spirit.

5:19  And converse with yourselves in psalms and hymns; and with your hearts sing to the Lord, in spiritual songs.

5:20  And give thanks to God the Father, at all times, for all men, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

5:21  And be submissive one to another, in the love of the Messiah.

5:22  Wives, be ye submissive to your husbands, as to our Lord.

5:23  Because the husband is the head of the wife, even as the Messiah is the head of the church; and he is the vivifier of the body.

5:24  And as the church is subject to the Messiah, so also let wives be to their husbands in all things.

5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as the Messiah loved his church, and delivered himself up for it;

5:26  that he might sanctify it, and cleanse it, by the washing of water, and by the word;

5:27  and might constitute it a glorious church for himself, in which is no stain, and no wrinkle, and nothing like them; but that it might be holy and without blemish.

5:28  It behooveth men so to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. For he that loveth his wife loveth himself.

5:29  For no one ever hated his own body; but nourisheth it, and provideth for it, even as the Messiah the church.

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

5:31  For this reason, a man should quit his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and the two should be one flesh.

5:32  This is a great mystery; but I am speaking of the Messiah, and of his church.

5:33  Nevertheless, let each of you severally so love his wife, even as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.