Oct. 14
Ephesians 5
Eph 5:1 Be therefore
imitators of God, as beloved children.
Eph 5:2 Walk in love,
even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Eph 5:3 But sexual
immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be
mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Eph 5:4 nor filthiness,
nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but
rather giving of thanks.
Eph 5:5 Know this for
sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom
of Christ and God.
Eph 5:6 Let no one
deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath
of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Eph 5:7 Therefore don't
be partakers with them.
Eph 5:8 For you were
once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of
light,
Eph 5:9 for the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Eph 5:10 proving what
is well pleasing to the Lord.
Eph 5:11 Have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even
reprove them.
Eph 5:12 For the things
which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
Eph 5:13 But all
things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for
everything that reveals is light.
Eph 5:14 Therefore he
says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ
will shine on you."
Eph 5:15 Therefore
watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
Eph 5:16 redeeming the
time, because the days are evil.
Eph 5:17 Therefore
don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Eph 5:18 Don't be
drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the
Spirit,
Eph 5:19 speaking to
one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and
making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Eph 5:20 giving thanks
always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to
God, even the Father;
Eph 5:21 subjecting
yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Eph 5:22 Wives, be
subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Eph 5:23 For the
husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the
assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
Eph 5:24 But as the
assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own
husbands in everything.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love
your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself
up for it;
Eph 5:26 that he might
sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the
word,
Eph 5:27 that he might
present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.
Eph 5:28 Even so
husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He
who loves his own wife loves himself.
Eph 5:29 For no man
ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the
Lord also does the assembly;
Eph 5:30 because we are
members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
Eph 5:31 "For this
cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to
his wife. The two will become one flesh."
Eph 5:32 This mystery
is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
Eph 5:33 Nevertheless
each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the
wife see that she respects her husband.