Ephesians 5:1-6:24 Therefore be ye imitators of God, as beloved children;

Godbey⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Therefore be ye imitators of God, as beloved children; ² and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor. ³ But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints; ⁴ and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks: ⁵ for you are knowing this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Therefore be not partakers along with them. ⁸ For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light, ⁹ (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord; ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather indeed convict them. ¹² For it is disgraceful even to speak of those things which are done by them in concealment: ¹³ but all things being convicted by the light are made manifest; for everything made manifest is light. ¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee. ¹⁵ Therefore see how you walk about circumspectly, not as unwise, but wise; ¹⁶ buying in the opportunity, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore be not unwise, but understand whatsoever is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ Be not drunk with wine, in which there is riot, but be ye filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰ always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; ²¹ being submissive to one another in the fear of Christ. ²² Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord, ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is submissive to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her; ²⁶ in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself: ²⁹ for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; ³⁰ because we are members of his body: ³¹ on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh. ³² This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband. ⁶ ¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ² Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, ³ that it may be well with you, and you may live long upon the earth. ⁴ And fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. ⁵ Ye servants, obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in purity of your heart, as unto Christ; ⁶ not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul; ⁷ serving with good will as the Lord, and not men: ⁸ knowing that if each one may do good, he will receive this with the Lord, whether bond or free. ⁹ And, ye masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: knowing that their Master and yours is in the heavens, and that there is no respect of persons with him. ¹⁰ Finally, be filled up with dynamite in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand against the methods of the devil, ¹² because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies. ¹³ Therefore take the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all things, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and being shod as to your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ in all things taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit in every place, and watching unto this same thing in all perseverance and prayer for all the saints, ¹⁹ and for me that the word may be given unto me in opening of my mouth, boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chain; in order that in it I may preach boldly, as it behooves me to speak. ²¹ But in order that you may also know the things concerning me, how I am doing, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known to you: ²² whom I sent to you unto this same thing, in order that you may know the affairs concerning us, and he may comfort your hearts. ²³ Peace and divine love to the brethren, with faith, from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace be with all who love the Lord Jesus Christ with divine love in purity.