Ephesians 5 (TRV)
From Textus Receptus
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- 1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
- 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma.
- 3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;
- 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
- 5 Because, you know this; that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
- 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.
- 8 Because, you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
- 9 (because, the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
- 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
- 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
- 12 Because, it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
- 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, because, whatever makes manifest is light.
- 14 Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
- 15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
- 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- 17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
- 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
- 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
- 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
- 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- 23 Because, the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
- 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
- 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
- 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
- 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
- 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
- 29 Because, no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
- 30 Because, we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
- 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
- 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
- 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.
