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Ephesians 5
1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear
children;
2 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.
3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or
covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as
becometh saints;
4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor
jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving
of thanks.
5 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.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for
because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon
the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye
light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness
and righteousness and truth;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works
of darkness, but rather reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret.
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest
by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is
light.
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and
arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee
light.
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools,
but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what
the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but
be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your
heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and
the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear
of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
as unto the Lord.
23 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.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so
let the wives be to their own husbands in every
thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word,
27 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.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own
bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the
church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and
of his bones.
31 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.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning
Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so
love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that
she reverence her husband.
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