Ephesians 5:1-9 ▼

1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,

2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God, into a fragrance of a sweet smell.

3 But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you⁺, just as is proper to saints,

4 and shamefulness, and foolish talk, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.

5 For this you⁺ know, realizing that every sexually immoral person, or impure person, or covetous person (who is an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

6 Let no one deceive you⁺ with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

8 For you⁺ were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth—