Ephesians 5
1Be
ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
2And
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.
3But fornication, and all uncleanness,
or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving
of thanks.
5For 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.
6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh
the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7Be
not ye therefore partakers with them.
8For
ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them.
12For it is a shame even to
speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
13But
all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light.
15See then
that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16Redeeming
the time, because the days are evil.
17Wherefore
be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20Giving
thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23For 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.
24Therefore as the church
is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word,
27That 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.
28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife loveth himself.
29For no man ever
yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they
two shall be one flesh.
32This is a great
mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33Nevertheless
let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.