Ephesians - Chapter 5 | American Standard Version

  • 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 odor 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, who 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 {cf15i 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, {cf15i 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, {cf15i being} himself the saviour of the body.
  • 24. But as the church is subject to Christ, so {cf15i let} the wives also {cf15i 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 {cf15i 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 two 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 {cf15i let} the wife {cf15i see} that she fear her husband.
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