The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ephesians 05
1 Be therefore imitators of God, as
beloved children.
2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved
us 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, nor
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 one deceive you with empty
words, for because of these things the
wrath of God comes on the children of
disobedience.
7 Therefore don’t be 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 Haveno fellowship with the unfruitful
deeds ofdarkness, but rather evenreprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of the
things which are done by them in secret.
13 But allthings, whenthey are reproved,
are revealed by the light, for everything
that reveals 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 dissipation, but be filled with
the Spirit,
19 speaking to one another in psalms,
hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and
making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20 giving thanks always concerning all
things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
to God, even the Father;
21 subjecting yourselves to one another
in the fear of Christ.
22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands,
as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is theheadofthe wife,
as Christ also is the head of the assembly,
being himself the savior of the body.
24 But as the assembly is subjectto Christ,
so let the wives also be to their own
husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as
Christ also loved the assembly and gave
himself up for her,
26 that he might sanctify her, having
cleansed her 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 she
should be holy and without defect.
28 Even so husbands also ought 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 the
Lord also does 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. Then the two will become one
flesh.”*
32 This mystery is great, but I speak
concerning Christ and 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.