RKJNT - Ephesians - 5

5:1  Therefore be imitators of God, as dear children;

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

5:3  But sexual immorality, and all impurity, or covetousness, must not even be named among you, as is befitting saints;

5:4  Nor let there be filthiness, or foolish talk, or coarse jesting, which are not proper: but rather giving of thanks.

5:5  For this you know: that no sexually immoral or impure person, or covetous man, (for such a man 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 sons 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 consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

5:10  And try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

5:11  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 the disobedient in secret.

5:13  But all things that are exposed by the light become visible: for everything that is made visible is light.

5:14  Therefore he says, Awaken, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

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

5:16  Making the most of 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, which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

5:19  Speaking to one another with 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 to one another out of reverence for Christ.

5:22  Wives, submit 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, his body: and he himself is its saviour.

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

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

5:26  That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water through the word,

5:27  That he might present her to himself a glorious church, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that she should be holy and without blemish.

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

5:29  For no man ever hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:

5:30  Because we are members of his body.

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

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

5:33  Nevertheless, let every one of you love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.