Ephesians 5:3-33 ▼

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—

10 discerning what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

11 And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose them.

12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things being done by them in secret.

13 But everything being exposed by the light is made manifest, for everything being made manifest is light.

14 Therefore it says: “Awake you, the one sleeping, and rise up out from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you.”

15 Therefore watch carefully how you⁺ walk, not as unwise but as wise,

16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17 Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what is the will of the Lord.

18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is debauchery, but be filled in the Spirit,

19 speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your⁺ heart to the Lord,

20 giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father.

21 Be submitting to one another in fear of Christ:

22 wives, to your own husbands as to the Lord;

23 for the husband is head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church, He Himself Savior of the body.

24 But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water in the word,

27 so that He might present to Himself the church in glory, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she may be holy and blameless.

28 So also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife loves himself.

29 For no one at any time hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it just as Christ also does the church.

30 For we are members of His body.

31 “Because of this, a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh.”

32 This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the church.

33 However, you⁺ also, every one, let each so love his wife as himself; and the wife, that she may respect the husband.