EPHESIANS 5

1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;⋮

2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.⋮

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

4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.⋮

5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.⋮

6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.⋮

7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them;⋮

8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light⋮

9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),⋮

10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;⋮

11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;⋮

12 for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.⋮

13 But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.⋮

14 Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.⋮

15 Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;⋮

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

17 Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.⋮

18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;⋮

19 speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;⋮

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

21 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.⋮

22 Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.⋮

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.⋮

24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.⋮

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;⋮

26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,⋮

27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.⋮

28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:⋮

29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;⋮

30 because we are members of his body.⋮

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh.⋮

32 This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.⋮

33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.⋮