chapter_Ephesians_5
Ephesians 5:1: Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, Ephesians 5:2: and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell, Ephesians 5:3: and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; Ephesians 5:4: also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, &#8212; the things not fit &#8212; but rather thanksgiving; Ephesians 5:5: for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. Ephesians 5:6: Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, Ephesians 5:7: become not, then, partakers with them, Ephesians 5:8: for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, Ephesians 5:9: for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, Ephesians 5:10: proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord, Ephesians 5:11: and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict, Ephesians 5:12: for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of, Ephesians 5:13: and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light; Ephesians 5:14: wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.' Ephesians 5:15: See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, Ephesians 5:16: redeeming the time, because the days are evil; Ephesians 5:17: because of this become not fools, but &#8212; understanding what is the will of the Lord, Ephesians 5:18: and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit, Ephesians 5:19: speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, Ephesians 5:20: giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father; Ephesians 5:21: subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. Ephesians 5:22: The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, Ephesians 5:23: because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body, Ephesians 5:24: but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:25: The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, Ephesians 5:26: that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, Ephesians 5:27: that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; Ephesians 5:28: so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife &#8212; himself he doth love; Ephesians 5:29: for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord &#8212; the assembly, Ephesians 5:30: because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; Ephesians 5:31: for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be &#8212; the two &#8212; for one flesh;' Ephesians 5:32: this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; Ephesians 5:33: but ye also, every one in particular &#8212; let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife &#8212; that she may reverence the husband.
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