Ephesians 5

Avoiding Immorality and Deceit Ephesians 5:3–7

³Verse 3. But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; ⁴Verse 4. nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. ⁵Verse 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. ⁶Verse 6. Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. ⁷Verse 7. Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

Walking as Children of Light Ephesians 5:8–14

⁸Verse 8. For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, ⁹Verse 9. for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, ¹⁰Verse 10. proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹Verse 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. ¹²Verse 12. For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. ¹³Verse 13. But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

¹⁴Verse 14. Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Living Wisely and Spiritually Ephesians 5:15–21

¹⁵Verse 15. Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; ¹⁶Verse 16. redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷Verse 17. Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸Verse 18. Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹Verse 19. speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰Verse 20. giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

²¹Verse 21. subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Husbands and Wives Relationships Ephesians 5:22–33

²²Verse 22. Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³Verse 23. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. ²⁴Verse 24. But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵Verse 25. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; ²⁶Verse 26. that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, ²⁷Verse 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.

²⁸Verse 28. Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹Verse 29. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; ³⁰Verse 30. because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. ³¹Verse 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.” ³²Verse 32. This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. ³³Verse 33. Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.