| 5.1 |
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. |
| 5.2 |
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. |
| 5.3 |
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; |
| 5.4 |
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. |
| 5.5 |
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. |
| 5.6 |
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. |
| 5.7 |
Therefore don’t be partakers with them. |
| 5.8 |
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, |
| 5.9 |
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, |
| 5.10 |
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. |
| 5.11 |
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. |
| 5.12 |
For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. |
| 5.13 |
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light. |
| 5.14 |
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” |
| 5.15 |
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; |
| 5.16 |
redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
| 5.17 |
Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. |
| 5.18 |
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, |
| 5.19 |
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord; |
| 5.20 |
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; |
| 5.21 |
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. |
| 5.22 |
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. |
| 5.23 |
For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. |
| 5.24 |
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. |
| 5.25 |
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; |
| 5.26 |
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, |
| 5.27 |
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. |
| 5.28 |
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. |
| 5.29 |
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; |
| 5.30 |
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. |
| 5.31 |
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” |
| 5.32 |
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. |
| 5.33 |
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. |
