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align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New King James Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">King James Bible</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore do not be partakers with them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Be not ye therefore partakers with them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For you were once darkness, but now <i>you are</i> light in the Lord. Walk as children of light<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For ye were sometimes darkness, but now <i>are ye</i> light in the Lord: walk as children of light:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">(for the fruit of the Spirit <i>is</i> in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">(For the fruit of the Spirit <i>is</i> in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose <i>them.</i><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove <i>them</i>.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">redeeming the time, because the days are evil.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord <i>is.</i><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord <i>is</i>.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">submitting to one another in the fear of God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so <i>let</i> the wives <i>be</i> to their own husbands in everything.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so <i>let</i> the wives <i>be</i> to their own husbands in every thing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord <i>does</i> the church.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife <i>see</i> that she respects <i>her</i> husband.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife <i>see</i> that she reverence <i>her</i> husband.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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