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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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Living in the Light</h3><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_1"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.1" class="v49_5_1">1</span>Since you are God's dear children, you must try to be like him. </span><span class="v49_5_2"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.2" class="v49_5_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that pleases God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_3"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.3" class="v49_5_3">3</span>Since you are God's people, it is not right that any matters of sexual immorality or indecency or greed should even be mentioned among you. </span><span class="v49_5_4"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.4" class="v49_5_4">4</span>Nor is it fitting for you to use language which is obscene, profane, or vulgar. Rather you should give thanks to God. </span><span class="v49_5_5"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.5" class="v49_5_5">5</span>You may be sure that no one who is immoral, indecent, or greedy (for greed is a form of idolatry) will ever receive a share in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_6"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.6" class="v49_5_6">6</span>Do not let anyone deceive you with foolish words; it is because of these very things that God's anger will come upon those who do not obey him. </span><span class="v49_5_7"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.7" class="v49_5_7">7</span>So have nothing at all to do with such people. </span><span class="v49_5_8"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.8" class="v49_5_8">8</span>You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light, </span><span class="v49_5_9"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.9" class="v49_5_9">9</span>for it is the light<a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth. </span><span class="v49_5_10"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.10" class="v49_5_10">10</span>Try to learn what pleases the Lord. </span><span class="v49_5_11"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.11" class="v49_5_11">11</span>Have nothing to do with the worthless things that people do, things that belong to the darkness. Instead, bring them out to the light. ( </span><span class="v49_5_12"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.12" class="v49_5_12">12</span>It is really too shameful even to talk about the things they do in secret.) </span><span class="v49_5_13"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.13" class="v49_5_13">13</span>And when all things are brought out to the light, then their true nature is clearly revealed; </span><span class="v49_5_14"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.14" class="v49_5_14">14</span>for anything that is clearly revealed becomes light.<a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> That is why it is said,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v49_5_14">“Wake up, sleeper,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v49_5_14">and rise from death,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v49_5_14">and Christ will shine on you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_15"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.15" class="v49_5_15">15</span>So be careful how you live. Don't live like ignorant people, but like wise people. </span><span class="v49_5_16"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.16" class="v49_5_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Make good use of every opportunity you have, because these are evil days. </span><span class="v49_5_17"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.17" class="v49_5_17">17</span>Don't be fools, then, but try to find out what the Lord wants you to do.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_18"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.18" class="v49_5_18">18</span>Do not get drunk with wine, which will only ruin you; instead, be filled with the Spirit. </span><span class="v49_5_19"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.19" class="v49_5_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Speak to one another with the words of psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing hymns and psalms to the Lord with praise in your hearts. </span><span class="v49_5_20"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.20" class="v49_5_20">20</span>In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father.</span></p><h3 class="s">Wives and Husbands</h3><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_21"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.21" class="v49_5_21">21</span>Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_22"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.22" class="v49_5_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord. </span><span class="v49_5_23"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.23" class="v49_5_23">23</span>For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Savior of the church, his body. </span><span class="v49_5_24"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.24" class="v49_5_24">24</span>And so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v49_5_25"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.25" class="v49_5_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. </span><span class="v49_5_26"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.26" class="v49_5_26">26</span>He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water, </span><span class="v49_5_27"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.27" class="v49_5_27">27</span>in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty—pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection. </span><span class="v49_5_28"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.28" class="v49_5_28">28</span>Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. ( </span><span class="v49_5_29"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.29" class="v49_5_29">29</span>None of us ever hate our own bodies. Instead, we feed them, and take care of them, just as Christ does the church; </span><span class="v49_5_30"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.30" class="v49_5_30">30</span>for we are members of his body.) </span><span class="v49_5_31"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.31" class="v49_5_31">31</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Eph.5.31!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> As the scripture says, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.” </span><span class="v49_5_32"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.32" class="v49_5_32">32</span>There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church. </span><span class="v49_5_33"><span class="reftext" id="Eph.5.33" class="v49_5_33">33</span>But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.9: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the light; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the Spirit.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.14: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">anything that is clearly revealed becomes light; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">it is light that clearly reveals everything.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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