Ephesians 5

1 Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,

Be ye therefore 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 in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.

3 But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you—even as becometh saints;

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

4 And shamelessness and foolish talking, or jesting, —which things are beneath you, —but, rather, giving of thanks;

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather 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 this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and 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 man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

7 Do not, then, become co-partners with them;

Be not ye therefore partakers 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 ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of 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 well-pleasing unto 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 even reprove them;

12 For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!

for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.

13 All things, however, when reproved by the light, become manifest, for, all that of itself maketh manifest, is, light;

But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.

14 Wherefore it saith—Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

15 Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking, —not as unwise, but as wise, —

Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

16 Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;

redeeming the time, 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;

Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

18 And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit; —

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be 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 with 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;

giving thanks always 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, —

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

22 Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,

Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto 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, —

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is 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 subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [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, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

26 That, her, he might sanctify, having purified [her] with the bath of water, in declaration,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with 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;

that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So, ought the husbands [also] to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies, —he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth 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 man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even 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.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh.

32 This sacred secret, is, great, —I, however, am speaking as to Christ and [as to] the assembly; —

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of 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.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.