Ephesians 5

• 1. Follow God's example in everything you do, because you are his dear children.
• 2. Live a life filled with love for others, following the example of Christ, who loved you and gave himself as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, because that sacrifice was like sweet perfume to him.
• 3. Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people.
• 4. Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes--these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.
• 5. You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is really an idolater who worships the things of this world.
• 6. Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the terrible anger of God comes upon all those who disobey him.
• 7. Don't participate in the things these people do.
• 8. For though your hearts were once full of darkness, now you are full of light from the Lord, and your behavior should show it!
• 9. For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
• 10. Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.
• 11. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, rebuke and expose them.
• 12. It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.
• 13. But when the light shines on them, it becomes clear how evil these things are.
• 14. And where your light shines, it will expose their evil deeds. This is why it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light."
• 15. So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise.
• 16. Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days.
• 17. Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.
• 18. Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you.
• 19. Then you will sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, making music to the Lord in your hearts.
• 20. And you will always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 21. And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
• 22. You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord.
• 23. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior.
• 24. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything.
• 25. And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her
• 26. to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word.
• 27. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
• 28. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife.
• 29. No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church.
• 30. And we are his body.
• 31. As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."
• 32. This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
• 33. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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