Ephesians 5

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

BE ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

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

and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.

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.

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

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

or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not a Christian, but rather thanksgiving.

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.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

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

For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

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

(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; )

10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

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

And have no society with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather rebuke them.

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

For it is scandalous but to mention the things done of them in secret.

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

But all things which are rebukeable are made manifest by the light; for it is the light, by which every thing is made manifest.

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

Wherefore he saith, “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

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

Take heed, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord.

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

And be not drunk with wine, in which there is sottishness, but be filled with the Spirit;

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

speaking one to another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in the heart to the Lord;

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

giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God even the Father;

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

being subject one to another in the fear of God.

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

Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; and is himself the saviour of the body.

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

As then the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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

Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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

that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word,

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

that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having blemish, nor wrinkle, nor any such things; but that it may be holy and unblameable.

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

So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself.

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

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

30 For we are members of His body.

for we are the members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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.”

For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh.

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

This mystery is great: but I am speaking with regard to Christ, and with regard to the church.

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

Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.