Ephesians 5
1BECOME therefore followers of God, as beloved children
2and walk in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.
3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints,
4and filthiness, and foolish talking, and jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.
5For this ye know, being aware that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
6Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
7Become not therefore partakers with them.
8For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,--
9for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,--
10proving what is acceptable to the Lord;
11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them.
12For it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret.
13But all things, when reproved, are by the light made manifest; for whatever makes manifest is light.
14Wherefore he says: Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.
15See to it then, how ye walk with exactness, not as unwise, but as wise,
16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17Therefore be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.
18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit;
19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20giving thanks always for all things, to God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ;
22wives to their own husbands, as to the Lord.
23Because a husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; himself the Savior of the body.
24But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bathing of water in the word,
27that he might himself present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and blameless.
28So husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
29For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the church;
30because we are members of his body, [being] of his flesh, and of his bones.
31For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
32This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.
33Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.