5Ephesians 5

1Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;Select Ephesians 5:1

2And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling smell.Select Ephesians 5:2

3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;Select Ephesians 5:3

4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.Select Ephesians 5:4

5For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.Select Ephesians 5:5

6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.Select Ephesians 5:6

7Be not you therefore partakers with them.Select Ephesians 5:7

8For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:Select Ephesians 5:8

9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)Select Ephesians 5:9

10Proving what is acceptable to the Lord.Select Ephesians 5:10

11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.Select Ephesians 5:11

12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.Select Ephesians 5:12

13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatever does make manifest is light.Select Ephesians 5:13

14Why he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.Select Ephesians 5:14

15See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,Select Ephesians 5:15

16Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.Select Ephesians 5:16

17Why be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.Select Ephesians 5:17

18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;Select Ephesians 5:18

19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Select Ephesians 5:19

20Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;Select Ephesians 5:20

21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.Select Ephesians 5:21

22Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.Select Ephesians 5:22

23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.Select Ephesians 5:23

24Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Select Ephesians 5:24

25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Select Ephesians 5:25

26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,Select Ephesians 5:26

27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.Select Ephesians 5:27

28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.Select Ephesians 5:28

29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:Select Ephesians 5:29

30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.Select Ephesians 5:30

31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.Select Ephesians 5:31

32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.Select Ephesians 5:32

33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.Select Ephesians 5:33