King James VersionEphesians5

Ephesians

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.