5:1 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children; |
5:2 And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us, and gave Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. |
5:3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, do not permit it even to be named among you, as is fitting for saints; |
5:4 Nor filthiness, nor foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming; but instead, thanksgiving. |
5:5 For this you know, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. |
5:6 Do not let anyone deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. |
5:7 Therefore, do not be joint partakers with them. |
5:8 For you were once darkness; but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, |
5:9 (Because the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) |
5:10 Proving what is well pleasing to the Lord; |
5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them; |
5:12 For it is shameful even to mention the things being done by them in secret. |
5:13 But all of these things being exposed by the light are openly revealed. |
5:14 Therefore He says, "You who are sleeping—wake up, and arise from the dead! And Christ shall shine upon you." |
5:15 So then, take heed that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as those who are wise, |
5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
5:17 For this reason, do not be foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. |
5:18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit: |
5:19 Speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and offering praise to the Lord with your hearts; |
5:20 Giving thanks at all times for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
5:21 Submit yourselves to one another in the fear of God. |
5:22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord; |
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. |
5:24 For even as the church is subject to Christ, in the same way also let wives be subject to their own husbands in everything. |
5:25 Husbands, love your own wives, in the same way that Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; |
5:26 So that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of the water by the Word; |
5:27 That He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it might be holy and without blame. |
5:28 In the same way, husbands are dutybound to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself; |
5:29 For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord does the church. |
5:30 For we are members of His body—of His flesh and of His bones. |
5:31 For this reason shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall be one flesh. |
5:32 This is a great mystery; but I am speaking in respect to Christ and the church. |
5:33 Nevertheless, let each one of you love his wife even as himself; and let each wife see that she reverence her husband. |