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Walk as children of light, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Test and prove what pleases the Lord. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So it is said: <p class="indent1stline">“Wake up, O sleeper, <p class="indent2"> rise up from the dead, <p class="indent2"> and Christ will shine on you.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>redeeming the time, because the days are evil. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">Wives and Husbands<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../songs/1.htm">Song of Solomon 1:1–17</a>; <a href ="../1_peter/3.htm">1 Peter 3:1–7</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. <A name="31"></a><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="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> NE and WH <i>Christ loved you</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> SBL begins verse 14 after <i>visible,</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>in the fear of Christ.</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> BYZ and TR include <i>—of His flesh and of His bones</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <a href="../genesis/2.htm#24">Genesis 2:24</a> (see also LXX)<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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