# Ephesians 5 [[Ephes-04|← Ephesians 04]] | [[Ephesians]] | [[Ephes-06|Ephesians 06 →]] *** ###### v1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. ###### v2 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. ###### v3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; ###### v4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks. ###### v5 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. ###### v6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. ###### v7 Therefore don't be partakers with them. ###### v8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, ###### v9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, ###### v10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. ###### v11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. ###### v12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. ###### v13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light. ###### v14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." ###### v15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, ###### v16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ###### v17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ###### v18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, ###### v19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; ###### v20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; ###### v21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. ###### v22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ###### v23 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. ###### v24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. ###### v25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; ###### v26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, ###### v27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. ###### v28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ###### v29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; ###### v30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. ###### v31 "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." ###### v32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. ###### v33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. *** [[Ephes-04|← Ephesians 04]] | [[Ephesians]] | [[Ephes-06|Ephesians 06 →]]