Ephesians 5

1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;● 2And 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.● 3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;● 4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.● 5For 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.● 6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. {disobedience: or, unbelief}● 7Be not ye therefore partakers with them.● 8For 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;)● 10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.● 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove {them}.● 12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.● 13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. {reproved: or, discovered}● 14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {he: or, it}● 15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,● 16Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.● 17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord {is}.● 18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;● 19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;● 20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;● 21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.● 22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.● 23For 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.● 24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so {let} the wives {be} to their own husbands in every thing.● 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;● 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,● 27That 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.● 28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.● 29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:● 30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.● 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.● 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.● 33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife {see} that she reverence {her} husband.●