Ephesians 5
1 Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,
Therefore be ye imitators of God, as beloved children;
2 And walk in love—even as, the Christ also, loved you, and delivered himself up in your behalf, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for a fragrance of sweet smell.
and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.
3 But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you—even as becometh saints;
But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
4 And shamelessness and foolish talking, or jesting, —which things are beneath you, —but, rather, giving of thanks;
and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks:
5 For, this, ye know, if ye take note—that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
for you are knowing this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:
Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
7 Do not, then, become co-partners with them;
Therefore be not partakers along with them.
8 For ye were, at one time, darkness, but, now, are ye light in the Lord, —as children of light, be walking,
For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,
9 For, the fruit of the light, is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, —
(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
10 Putting to the test what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
proving what is acceptable to the Lord;
11 And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather indeed convict them.
12 For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!
For it is disgraceful even to speak of those things which are done by them in concealment:
13 All things, however, when reproved by the light, become manifest, for, all that of itself maketh manifest, is, light;
but all things being convicted by the light are made manifest; for everything made manifest is light.
14 Wherefore it saith—Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
Therefore he says, Awake, thou sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee.
15 Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking, —not as unwise, but as wise, —
Therefore see how you walk about circumspectly, not as unwise, but wise;
16 Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;
buying in the opportunity, because the days are evil.
17 For this cause, do not become foolish, but have discernment as to what is the will of the Lord;
Therefore be not unwise, but understand whatsoever is the will of the Lord.
18 And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit; —
Be not drunk with wine, in which there is riot, but be ye filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing, and striking the strings, with your heart unto the Lord;
speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
20 Giving thanks, always, for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto your God and Father;
always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in reverence of Christ, —
being submissive to one another in the fear of Christ.
22 Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,
Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
23 Because, a husband, is the head of his wife, as, the Christ also, is the head of the assembly, he, being the saviour of the body, —
because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
24 Nevertheless, as, the assembly, submitteth herself unto the Christ, so, the wives, unto their husbands, in everything:
But as the church is submissive to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything.
25 Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,
Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;
26 That, her, he might sanctify, having purified [her] with the bath of water, in declaration,
in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word,
27 That, he, might present, unto himself, the assembly, all glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she should be holy and blameless;
in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless.
28 So, ought the husbands [also] to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies, —he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,
So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:
29 No one, in fact, ever yet hated, his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, —even as, the Christ, the assembly,
for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;
30 Because, members, are we of his body; —
because we are members of his body:
31 For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and will cleave unto his wife, and, they two, shall become, one flesh.
on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This sacred secret, is, great, —I, however, am speaking as to Christ and [as to] the assembly; —
This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, [see] that she reverence her husband.
Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.
