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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ephesians 5 BLB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ephesians/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//ephesians/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</a> > Ephesians 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/ephesians/5.htm" width="100%" height="32" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ephesians/4.htm" title="Ephesians 4">◄</a> Ephesians 5 <a href="../ephesians/6.htm" title="Ephesians 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Imitators of God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us <i>as</i> an offering and a sacrifice to God, into an aroma of a sweet smell. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you, as also is proper to saints, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and filthiness, and foolish talking, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For this you know, realizing that any fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore do not be partakers with them. </p><p class="hdg">Children of Light</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For you were once darkness, but now <i>you are</i> light in <i>the</i> Lord. Walk as children of light— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for the fruit of the light <i>is</i> in all goodness and righteousness and truth— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>discerning what is well-pleasing to the Lord. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even expose <i>them</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it is shameful even to mention the things being done by them in secret. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But everything being exposed by the light is made visible, for everything becoming visible is light. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore it says:</p><p class="indent1stline">“Awake you, the <i>one</i> sleeping,</p><p class="indent2"> and rise up out from the dead,</p><p class="indent2"> and Christ will shine upon you.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore carefully take heed how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>redeeming the time, because the days are evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what <i>is</i> the Lord’s will, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and not to be drunk with wine in which is debauchery. Instead be filled with <i>the</i> Spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>giving thanks at all times for all things in <i>the</i> name our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father. </p><p class="hdg">Wives and Husbands<br /><span class="cross">(Song of Solomon 1:1-3; 1 Peter 3:1-7)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Be submitting yourselves to one another in reverence of Christ: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>wives, to the own husbands as to the Lord; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>for <i>the</i> husband is head of the wife as also Christ <i>is the</i> head of the church, He Himself Savior of the body. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But even as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to the own husbands in everything. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Husbands, love the wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed <i>her</i> by the washing of water by <i>the</i> word, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>so that He might present to Himself the church in glory, not having spot or wrinkle or any of the such things, but that it would be holy and blameless. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So also husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. The <i>one</i> loving his wife loves himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For no one at any time hated his flesh. But he nourishes and cherishes it just as Christ also <i>does</i> the church. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For we are members of His body.<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="BYZ and TR include ‘of His flesh and of His bones’">a</a></span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Because of this, a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="Genesis 2:24">b</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>This mystery is great; but I speak as to Christ and as to the church. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>However, you also, every individual, let each so love his wife as himself; and the wife, that she may respect the husband.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnote">BYZ and TR include <i>of His flesh and of His bones</i></span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnote">Genesis 2:24</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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