NHEBJE - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

5:2  Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

5:3  But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

5:4  nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

5:5  Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any 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 comes on the children of disobedience.

5:7  Therefore do not be partakers with them.

5:8  For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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

5:10  proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

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

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

5:13  But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

5:14  Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

5:15  Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

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

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

5:18  Do not be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

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

5:21  subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body.

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

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

5:26  that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

5:27  that he might present the church to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

5:28  Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

5:30  because we are members of his body.

5:31  "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

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

5:33  Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.