THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 5

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1 Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children ⚑

2 And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour ⚑

3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh saints ⚑

4 Neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks ⚑

5 For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God ⚑

6 Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience ⚑

7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them ⚑

8 For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light ⚑

9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth ⚑

10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord ⚑

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them ⚑

12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret ⚑

13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light ⚑

14 Wherefore he saith Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light ⚑

15 See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise ⚑

16 Redeeming the time because the days are evil ⚑

17 Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is ⚑

18 And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit ⚑

19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord ⚑

20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ⚑

21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God ⚑

22 Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord ⚑

23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the saviour of the body ⚑

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing ⚑

25 Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it ⚑

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word ⚑

27 That he might present it 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 men to love their wives as their own bodies He that loveth his wife loveth himself ⚑

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the church ⚑

30 For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones ⚑

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh ⚑

32 This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the church ⚑

33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain