### American Standard Version

Ephesians 4

## The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

Return to Index

| # Chapter 5
#### 1 | Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
#### 2 | and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
#### 3 | But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
#### 4 | nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
#### 5 | For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
#### 6 | Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
#### 7 | Be not ye therefore partakers with them;
#### 8 | For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
#### 9 | (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
#### 10 | proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
#### 11 | and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
#### 12 | for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.
#### 13 | But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.
#### 14 | Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
#### 15 | Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
#### 16 | redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
#### 17 | Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
#### 18 | And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
#### 19 | speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
#### 20 | giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
#### 21 | subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
#### 22 | Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
#### 23 | For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.
#### 24 | But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.
#### 25 | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
#### 26 | that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
#### 27 | that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
#### 28 | Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
#### 29 | for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
#### 30 | because we are members of his body.
#### 31 | For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
#### 32 | This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
#### 33 | Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

Ephesians 6

Public Domain Software by johnhurt.com