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Ephesians 5

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Verse 1. Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

Verse 2. and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Verse 3. But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Verse 4. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

Verse 5. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Verse 6. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Verse 7. Therefore do not be partakers with them.

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

Verse 9. for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Verse 10. Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

Verse 11. Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Verse 12. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

Verse 13. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

Verse 14. So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Verse 15. Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Verse 16. redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Verse 17. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Verse 18. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Verse 19. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

Verse 20. always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Verse 21. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Verse 22. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Verse 23. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

Verse 24. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Verse 25. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

Verse 26. to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

Verse 27. and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

Verse 28. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Verse 29. Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

Verse 30. For we are members of His body.

Verse 31. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Verse 32. This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

Verse 33. Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.