Ephesians 5:1-13 ▼

1 Become, then, followers of God, as beloved children,

2 and 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,

3 and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, do not let it even be named among you, as is proper to holy ones;

4 also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting—the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving;

5 for you 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.

6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things comes the anger of God on the sons of the disobedience;

7 do not become, then, partakers with them,

8 for you were once darkness, and 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 to the LORD;

11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

12 for it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret,

13 and all the things reproved by the light are revealed, for everything that is revealed is light;