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Ephesians 4

## The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

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| # Chapter 5
#### 1 | Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
#### 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.
#### 3 | But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
#### 4 | nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
#### 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.
#### 6 | Let no man deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
#### 7 | Don't be therefore partakers with them.
#### 8 | For you were once darkness, but are now 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 well-pleasing to the Lord.
#### 11 | 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 revealed by the light, for everything that is revealed is light.
#### 14 | Therefore he says, 'Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'
#### 15 | Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
#### 16 | redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
#### 17 | Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
#### 18 | Don't be drunken with wine, in which is an abandoned life, but be filled with the Spirit,
#### 19 | speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in 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 subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
#### 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.
#### 24 | But as the assembly 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 assembly, 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 assembly to himself gloriously, 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 who loves his own wife loves himself.
#### 29 | For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the assembly;
#### 30 | because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
#### 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.'
#### 32 | This mystery is great, but I speak in regard of Christ and of the assembly.
#### 33 | Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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