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title: Ephesians 5
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createdAt: 2024-09-15T02:16:16.472Z
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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.