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<span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, — the things not fit — but rather thanksgiving; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and 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 vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>become not, then, 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 ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>wherefore he saith, ‘Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>See, then, how exactly ye 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 become not fools, but — understanding what [is] the will of the Lord, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>speaking to yourselves 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 always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.</p> <a name="22" id="22"></a><p class="hdg">Wives and Husbands<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../songs/1.htm">Song of Solomon 1:1-3</a>; <a href="../1_peter/3.htm">1 Peter 3:1-7</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives to their own husbands in everything.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife — himself he doth love; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord — the assembly, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>‘for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be — the two — for one flesh;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ephesians/5-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>but ye also, every one in particular — let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife — that she may reverence the husband.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ephesians/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ephesians 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ephesians 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ephesians/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ephesians 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ephesians 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/ephesians/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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