5:1 | You therefore be followers of God as dear children. |
5:2 | And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma. |
5:3 | But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; |
5:4 | neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. |
5:5 | Because, you know this; that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. |
5:6 | Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience. |
5:7 | Therefore do not be partakers with them. |
5:8 | Because, you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light |
5:9 | (because, the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), |
5:10 | finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. |
5:11 | And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. |
5:12 | Because, it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. |
5:13 | But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, because whatever makes manifest is light. |
5:14 | Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light." |
5:15 | See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, |
5:16 | redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
5:17 | Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. |
5:18 | And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, |
5:19 | speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, |
5:20 | giving thanks always for all things to God, even the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
5:21 | submitting yourselves to one another in the reverence of God. |
5:22 | Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. |
5:23 | Because, the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. |
5:24 | Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. |
5:25 | Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, |
5:26 | that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, |
5:27 | that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. |
5:28 | So husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. |
5:29 | Because, no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. |
5:30 | Because, we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. |
5:31 | "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." |
5:32 | This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. |
5:33 | Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife just as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband. |