Ephesians 5

1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

Be therefore imitators of Aloha, as beloved children;

2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

and walk in love, as the Meshiha also loved us, and delivered himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to Aloha of a fragrant smell.

3 But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

BUT fornication and all uncleanness and covetousness, let them not be even heard among you, as it becometh the saints;

4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

neither filthiness, nor words of folly, or of jeering, or fables, which are not necessary, but, instead of these, thanksgiving.

5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

But this know, that any man who is a fornicator, or impure, or covetous, or an idolater, hath no inheritance in the kingdom of the Meshiha and of Aloha;

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

lest any man deceive you with vain words; for because of these cometh the anger of Aloha upon the sons of disobedience.

7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Be not, therefore, participators with them.

8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For you were before darkness, but now you are light in our Lord. As the sons of light, then, so walk.

9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

For the fruits of the light are in all goodness and rectitude and truth.

10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

And be discerning of that which is good before our Lord.

11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

And have no communion with the works of darkness, which have no fruits, but reprove them.

12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

For that which in secrecy they do it is execrable even to mention.

13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

For every thing is exposed by the light, and is revealed, and whatever revealeth is light.

14 So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Wherefore it is said, Awake thou who sleepest, And arise from the dead, And the Meshiha shall enlighten thee.

15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

See then that you walk vigilantly, not as fools,

16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

but as the wise who redeem their opportunity, because the days are evil.

17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

On account of this, be not wanting in mind, but understand what is the will of Aloha.

18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is intemperance, but be filled with the Spirit.

19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

And discourse with yourselves with psalms and with hymns and with songs of the Spirit, singing with your hearts unto the Lord.

20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And give thanks always on behalf of every man in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha unto Aloha the Father.

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

And be subject one to another in the love of the Meshiha.

22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

WIVES, be subject to your husbands as to our Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as the Meshiha is the head of the church, and he himself is the Saviour of the body.

24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

But as the church is subject to Meshiha, so also (should) wives be unto their husbands in every thing.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

Husbands, love your wives, as also the Meshiha loved his church, and gave himself for her,

26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

that he might sanctify her and purify her in the laver of waters and by the word,

27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

and that he might constitute her a church unto himself, being glorified, and not having blemish or wrinkle or any thing like these; but to be holy and spotless.

28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

So it becometh husbands to love their wives, as their own bodies. For he who his wife loveth, himself he loveth.

29 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

For no man ever hated his own body, but nourisheth it, and taketh care of it; so also the Meshiha (taketh care) of the church.

30 For we are members of His body.

For we are members of his body, and of his flesh are we, and of his bones.

31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Because of this a man leaveth his father and his mother, and cleaveth unto his wife, and they two become one flesh.

32 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

This mystery is great; but I speak of the Meshiha and of his church.

33 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Nevertheless let every one of you so love his wife as his own self; but let the wife reverence her husband.