Ephesians 5

¹Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

²and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

³But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, [or] of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

⁴[Nor should there be] obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

⁵For of this you can be sure: [No] immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has [any] inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶{Let} no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

⁷Therefore {do} not be partakers with them.

⁸For you were once darkness, but now [you are] light in [the] Lord. Walk as children of light,

⁹for the fruit of the light [consists] in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

¹⁰Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

¹¹Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose [them].

¹²For it is shameful even to mention what [the disobedient] do in secret.

¹³But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light [itself].

¹⁴So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

¹⁵Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷Therefore {do} not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will [is].

¹⁸{Do} not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with [the] Spirit.

¹⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

²⁰always giving thanks to God [the] Father for everything in [the] name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²²Wives, [submit] to your husbands as to the Lord.

²³For [the] husband is [the] head of the wife as Christ [is the] head of the church, [His] body, [of which] He [is the] Savior.

²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives [should submit] to their husbands in everything.

²⁵Husbands, love [your] wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

²⁶to sanctify her, cleansing [her] by the washing with water through [the] word,

²⁷[and] to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such [blemish], but holy and blameless.

²⁸In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹Indeed, no one ever hated his [own] body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ [does] the church.

³⁰For we are members of His body.

³¹“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

³²This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

³³Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as [he loves] himself, and the wife must respect [her] husband.