Ephesians 5
1 So then, imitate God since you're his much-loved children.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,
2 Live in love, just as Christ loved you. He gave himself for us, a gift and sacrificial offering to God like a sweet-smelling perfume.
and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
3 Sexual immorality or any kind of indecency or greed should never be mentioned concerning you, as God's people should not be doing such things.
But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
4 Obscene talk, stupid chatter, and coarse jokes are totally inappropriate—instead you should be thanking God.
and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
5 You know it's absolutely sure that no-one who is sexually immoral, or commits indecency, or who is greedy, or is an idol-worshiper will inherit anything in the kingdom of Christ and God.
For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
6 Don't let anyone fool you with lying words, for it's because of such things that God's judgment is passed on the children of disobedience.
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7 So don't partner with them in this.
Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;
8 At one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. You are to live as children of light
for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord; walk as children of light,
9 (and the fruit of light is everything that's good and right and true),
(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth, )
10 demonstrating what the Lord really appreciates.
proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
11 Don't have anything to do with the pointless things that darkness produces—instead expose them.
and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [them],
12 It's shameful even to speak about the things such people do secretly,
for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.
13 but when anything is exposed by the light then it's revealed as it is. Light makes everything visible.
But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.
14 That's why it's said, “Wake up, those of you who are sleeping, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
15 So be careful how you live your life, not foolishly, but wisely,
See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,
16 making the best use of opportunities because the days are evil.
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 So don't be ignorant—find out what the Lord's will is.
For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is] the will of the Lord.
18 Don't get drunk on wine which will wreck your life, but be filled with the Spirit.
And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
19 Share together with one another, using psalms and hymns and sacred songs, singing and making music to the Lord to express what you feel.
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;
20 Always thank God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is] God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 Each of you should be willing to accept what others tell you to do out of reverence for Christ.
submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.
22 Wives, do what your own husbands tell you to do, as you would if the Lord told you.
Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
23 The husband is head of the wife in the same way as Christ is head of the church—his body and its savior.
for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly. He [is] Saviour of the body.
24 In the same way that the church does what Christ says, wives should do what their husbands tell them in all things.
But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, you should love your wives in the same way as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.
Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
26 He made it holy, he made it clean by washing in the water of the word,
in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word,
27 so that he could make the church his own, with no flaw or blemish or any kind of fault, but holy and blameless.
that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.
28 Husbands should love their wives just like this, as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself—
So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.
29 for no one ever hated his own body, but feeds it and looks after it, just as Christ does for the church,
For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:
30 for we are parts of his body.
for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]
31 “This is why a man leaves his father and mother, and is joined to his wife, and the two are united in one.”
Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a deep hidden truth—but I'm talking about Christ and the church.
This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.
33 However, each husband should love his own wife as he does himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the husband.
