EPHESIANS 5:1 FOLLOW GOD'S EXAMPLE, THEREFORE, AS DEARLY LOVED CHILDREN
EPHESIANS 5:2 AND WALK IN THE WAY OF LOVE, JUST AS CHRIST LOVED US AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR US AS A FRAGRANT OFFERING AND SACRIFICE TO GOD.
EPHESIANS 5:3 BUT AMONG YOU THERE MUST NOT BE EVEN A HINT OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY, OR OF ANY KIND OF IMPURITY, OR OF GREED, BECAUSE THESE ARE IMPROPER FOR GOD'S HOLY PEOPLE.
EPHESIANS 5:4 NOR SHOULD THERE BE OBSCENITY, FOOLISH TALK OR COARSE JOKING, WHICH ARE OUT OF PLACE, BUT RATHER THANKSGIVING.
EPHESIANS 5:5 FOR OF THIS YOU CAN BE SURE: NO IMMORAL, IMPURE OR GREEDY PERSON--SUCH A PERSON 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 GOD'S WRATH COMES ON THOSE WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT.
EPHESIANS 5:7 THEREFORE DO NOT BE PARTNERS WITH THEM.
EPHESIANS 5:8 FOR YOU WERE ONCE DARKNESS, BUT NOW YOU ARE LIGHT IN THE LORD. LIVE AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT
EPHESIANS 5:9 (FOR THE FRUIT OF THE LIGHT CONSISTS IN ALL GOODNESS, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH)
EPHESIANS 5:10 AND FIND OUT WHAT PLEASES THE LORD.
EPHESIANS 5:11 HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FRUITLESS DEEDS OF DARKNESS, BUT RATHER EXPOSE THEM.
EPHESIANS 5:12 IT IS SHAMEFUL EVEN TO MENTION WHAT THE DISOBEDIENT DO IN SECRET.
EPHESIANS 5:13 BUT EVERYTHING EXPOSED BY THE LIGHT BECOMES VISIBLE--AND EVERYTHING THAT IS ILLUMINATED BECOMES A LIGHT.
EPHESIANS 5:14 THIS IS WHY IT IS SAID: 'WAKE UP, SLEEPER, RISE FROM THE DEAD, AND CHRIST WILL SHINE ON YOU.'
EPHESIANS 5:15 BE VERY CAREFUL, THEN, HOW YOU LIVE--NOT AS UNWISE BUT AS WISE,
EPHESIANS 5:16 MAKING THE MOST OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY, 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 DEBAUCHERY. INSTEAD, BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT,
EPHESIANS 5:19 SPEAKING TO ONE ANOTHER WITH PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SONGS FROM THE SPIRIT. SING AND MAKE MUSIC FROM YOUR HEART 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 YOURSELVES TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS AS YOU DO 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 MAKE HER HOLY, CLEANSING HER BY THE WASHING WITH WATER THROUGH THE WORD,
EPHESIANS 5:27 AND TO PRESENT HER TO HIMSELF AS A RADIANT CHURCH, WITHOUT STAIN OR WRINKLE OR ANY OTHER BLEMISH, BUT HOLY AND BLAMELESS.
EPHESIANS 5:28 IN THIS SAME WAY, HUSBANDS OUGHT TO LOVE THEIR WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES. HE WHO LOVES HIS WIFE LOVES HIMSELF.
EPHESIANS 5:29 AFTER ALL, NO ONE EVER HATED THEIR OWN BODY, BUT THEY FEED AND CARE FOR THEIR BODY, JUST AS CHRIST DOES THE CHURCH--
EPHESIANS 5:30 FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY. 31FOR 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 IS A PROFOUND MYSTERY--BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.
EPHESIANS 5:33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.