Ephesians 5

^{Ephesians 5:1} Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

^{Ephesians 5:2} and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

^{Ephesians 5:3} 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.

^{Ephesians 5:4} Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

^{Ephesians 5:5} 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.

^{Ephesians 5:6} Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

^{Ephesians 5:7} Therefore do not be partakers with them.

^{Ephesians 5:8} For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

^{Ephesians 5:9} for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

^{Ephesians 5:10} Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

^{Ephesians 5:11} Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

^{Ephesians 5:12} For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

^{Ephesians 5:13} But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

^{Ephesians 5:14} So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

^{Ephesians 5:15} Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

^{Ephesians 5:16} redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

^{Ephesians 5:17} Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

^{Ephesians 5:18} Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

^{Ephesians 5:19} Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

^{Ephesians 5:20} always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

^{Ephesians 5:21} Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

^{Ephesians 5:22} Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

^{Ephesians 5:23} 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.

^{Ephesians 5:24} Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

^{Ephesians 5:25} Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

^{Ephesians 5:26} to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

^{Ephesians 5:27} and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

^{Ephesians 5:28} In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

^{Ephesians 5:29} Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

^{Ephesians 5:30} For we are members of His body.

^{Ephesians 5:31} “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

^{Ephesians 5:32} This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

^{Ephesians 5:33} Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.