Ephesians 5
World English Bible (WEB) • 33 verses
1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Related1 John 4:11 · 1 Peter 1:15-16 · Ephesians 4:32 · Matthew 5:48 · Luke 6:35-36 · Colossians 3:12
2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
RelatedJohn 13:34 · Galatians 2:20 · Colossians 3:14 · 2 Corinthians 2:15 · Matthew 20:28 · 1 Corinthians 16:14
3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
RelatedColossians 3:5 · Ephesians 5:5 · Galatians 5:19-21 · 1 Corinthians 6:18 · 1 Thessalonians 4:7 · 1 Thessalonians 4:3
4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
RelatedColossians 3:8 · Ephesians 4:29 · 1 Thessalonians 5:18 · Proverbs 15:2 · James 3:4-8 · Matthew 12:34-37
5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
RelatedGalatians 5:21 · 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 · Revelation 22:15 · Colossians 3:5 · Ephesians 5:3 · Revelation 21:8
6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
RelatedRomans 1:18 · Matthew 24:4 · Colossians 2:8 · 1 John 4:1 · Colossians 3:6 · 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
7Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
RelatedRevelation 18:4 · 1 Timothy 5:22 · Ephesians 5:11 · Numbers 16:26 · Proverbs 1:10-17 · Psalms 50:18
8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
RelatedGalatians 5:22-23 · 3 John 1:11 · 1 John 3:9-10 · Ephesians 6:14 · Romans 15:14 · 1 Timothy 6:11
10proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
RelatedRomans 12:1-2 · Psalms 19:14 · Hebrews 12:28 · 1 Peter 2:5 · 1 Peter 2:20 · 1 Thessalonians 5:21
11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
RelatedRomans 13:12 · 1 Timothy 5:20 · 2 Thessalonians 3:6 · 2 John 1:10-11 · Romans 16:17 · Romans 6:21
12For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
RelatedEphesians 5:3 · Romans 2:16 · Jeremiah 23:24 · Ecclesiastes 12:14 · 2 Samuel 12:12 · Romans 1:24-27
13But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
RelatedIsaiah 60:1 · Romans 13:11-12 · Isaiah 26:19 · 1 Thessalonians 5:6 · Isaiah 52:1 · 2 Corinthians 4:6
15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
RelatedColossians 4:5 · James 3:13 · Philippians 1:27 · 1 Corinthians 14:20 · Proverbs 14:8 · 1 Timothy 6:9
16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
RelatedColossians 4:5 · Amos 5:13 · John 12:35 · Ecclesiastes 12:1 · Ephesians 6:13 · Galatians 6:10
17Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
RelatedRomans 12:2 · 1 Thessalonians 5:18 · Colossians 1:9 · Ephesians 5:15 · Jeremiah 4:22 · 1 Peter 4:2
18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
RelatedColossians 3:17 · 1 Thessalonians 5:18 · Hebrews 13:15 · Philippians 4:6 · Ephesians 5:4 · 2 Thessalonians 1:3
21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
RelatedPhilippians 2:3 · Ephesians 5:24 · Ephesians 5:22 · Hebrews 13:17 · 1 Peter 5:5 · 1 Timothy 3:4
22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
RelatedColossians 3:18-4:1 · 1 Peter 3:1-6 · Titus 2:5 · Genesis 3:16 · Esther 1:20 · Ephesians 5:22-6:9
23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
Related1 Corinthians 11:3-10 · Colossians 1:18 · Ephesians 5:25-26 · Ephesians 1:22-23 · Ephesians 4:15 · 1 Thessalonians 1:10
24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
Related1 Peter 3:7 · Colossians 3:19 · Ephesians 5:28 · Genesis 2:24 · Ephesians 5:33 · Ephesians 5:2
26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
RelatedColossians 1:22 · Hebrews 9:14 · 1 Peter 1:19 · 2 Corinthians 11:2 · Ephesians 1:4 · Song of Solomon 4:7
28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
29For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,
RelatedEphesians 5:31 · Ezekiel 34:14-15 · Ecclesiastes 4:5 · John 6:50-58 · Proverbs 11:17 · Isaiah 40:11
30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
Related1 Corinthians 6:15 · 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 · Romans 12:5 · Genesis 2:23 · Ephesians 1:23 · Colossians 2:19
31“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”
32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly.
RelatedRevelation 21:2 · 2 Corinthians 11:2 · Isaiah 54:5 · Revelation 19:7-8 · Colossians 2:2 · Isaiah 62:4-5
33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Related1 Peter 3:2-7 · Esther 1:20 · Ephesians 5:22 · Ephesians 5:25 · Colossians 3:19 · Ephesians 5:28-29
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