Eph Ephesians, chapter Epistle to the Ephesians, chapter 5
Become, then, followers of God, as beloved children, Mat 5:48and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a refreshing fragrance, Jhn 13:34; 1Jn 3:11and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, do not let it even be named among yöu, as is proper to holy ones; 1Co 6:15also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting—the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving; Mat 12:36; Eph 4:29for yöu know this, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. 1Co 6:10Let no one deceive yöu with vain words, for because of these things comes the anger of God on the sons of the disobedience; Mat 24:4; Mrk 13:5; Luk 21:8; 2Th 2:3do not become, then, partakers with them, for yöu were once darkness, and now light in the LORD; walk as children of light, Jhn 8:12; Jhn 12:36for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, Gal 5:22proving what is well-pleasing to the LORD; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict, 2Co 6:14; 1Ti 5:20for it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret, and all the things reproved by the light are revealed, for everything that is revealed is light; Jhn 3:20for this reason it says, “Arouse yourself, you who are sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ will shine on you.” Isa 60:1; Rom 6:4See, then, how exactly yöu walk, not as unwise, but as wise, Col 4:5redeeming the time, because the days are evil; do not become fools because of this, but—understanding what [is] the will of the LORD, Rom 12:2; 1Th 4:3and do not be drunk with wine, in which is wastefulness, but be filled in the Spirit, Isa 5:11; Luk 21:34speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in yöur heart to the LORD, Col 3:16always giving thanks for all things, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father, Isa 63:7; Col 3:17; 1Th 5:18subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. The wives: [subject yourselves] to yöur own husbands, as to the LORD, Col 3:18; Tit 2:5because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the Assembly, and He is Savior of the body, 1Co 11:3; Eph 1:22but even as the Assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives [subject] to their own husbands in everything. The husbands: love yöur own wives, as the Christ also loved the Assembly, and gave Himself for it, Gal 1:4; Col 3:19that He might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying, 1Pe 3:21; Tit 3:5; Heb 9:14that He might present the Assembly to Himself in glory, having no spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; Sng 4:7; 2Co 11:2; Eph 1:4so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—he loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and nurtures it, as also the LORD—the Assembly, because we are members of His body, [[of His flesh, and of His bones.]] “For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh”; Gen 2:24; Mat 19:5; Mrk 10:7; 1Co 6:16this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the Assembly; but yöu also, everyone in particular—let each so love his own wife as himself, and the wife—that she may revere the husband.