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# Ephesians 5

[1](#verse-1) Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

[2](#verse-2) Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

[3](#verse-3) But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

[4](#verse-4) nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

[5](#verse-5) Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

[6](#verse-6) Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

[7](#verse-7) Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

[8](#verse-8) For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

[9](#verse-9) for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

[10](#verse-10) proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

[11](#verse-11) Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

[12](#verse-12) For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

[13](#verse-13) But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

[14](#verse-14) Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

[15](#verse-15) Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

[16](#verse-16) redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

[17](#verse-17) Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

[18](#verse-18) Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

[19](#verse-19) speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

[20](#verse-20) giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

[21](#verse-21) subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

[22](#verse-22) Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

[23](#verse-23) For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

[24](#verse-24) But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

[25](#verse-25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

[26](#verse-26) that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

[27](#verse-27) that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.

[28](#verse-28) Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

[29](#verse-29) For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,

[30](#verse-30) because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

[31](#verse-31) “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”

[32](#verse-32) This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly.

[33](#verse-33) Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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