Ephesians


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


5:2
 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.


5:3
 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;


5:4
 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.


5:5
 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath 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 cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.


5:7
 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.


5:8
 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye 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 unto 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 of them in secret.


5:13
 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.


5:14
 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.


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


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


5:17
 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.


5:18
 And be not drunk with wine, wherein 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
 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;


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


5:22
 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto 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 saviour of the body.


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


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 a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.


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


5:29
 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:


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


5:31
 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they 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 in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.