Ephesians 5

Thomson^{(i) 1} be ye therefore imitators of God as beloved children. ² And walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, as an3 offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. ³ And let not fornication, nor uncleanness of any sort, nor inordinate desire, be so much as named among you, as becometh saints; ⁴ nor obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor jesting about things which are unbecoming; but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this you know that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lewd libertine, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain discourses; for on the account of these things the wrath of God is coining on these children of disobedience, ⁷ be not ye8 therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For you were formerly darkness, but being now a light in the Lord, walk as children of light ⁹ [for the fruit of this light consists of goodness and righteousness and truth of every sort] ¹⁰ proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them: ¹² for as to the things done by them in secret, it is shameful even to mention them. ¹³ But all these reprehensible things are exposed to view by the light. For it is light which exposeth every thing to view; ¹⁴ therefore it is said, "Awake thou who sleepest and arise from the dead and the Christ will shine upon thee. ¹⁵ Take heed therefore how circumspectly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time. Because these are evil days, ¹⁷ therefore be not without understanding, but intelligent with regard to what is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And be not intoxicated with wine in which there is debauchery, but be filled with the spirit ¹⁹ when: you are speaking to one another, when with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs you are singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord: ²⁰ and give thanks on all occasions for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father. ²¹ Be subject to one another in the fear of God. ²² Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife, even as the Christ is the head of the congregation. He indeed is the saviour of the body; ²⁴ but as the congregation is subject to the Christ, so let wives be to their husbands in every thing. ²⁵ Husbands love your wives, even as the Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself up for it, ²⁶ that having purified it with the bath of the water, he might hallow it; indeed ²⁷ that he might present it to himself as the glorious congregation, having neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any defect whatever; but that it may be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ In the same manner husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loveth his wife, loveth himself. ²⁹ Now no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the congregation, ³⁰ because we are members of his body; of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ Instead of this, "a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they two will be one flesh," ³² this is the great mystery, I mean in regard to Christ and the congregation. ³³ However with regard to you individually, let every one love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.