Ephesians 5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children,

² and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us,  a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

³ But sexual immorality  and any impurity  or greed  should not even be heard of  among you, as is proper for saints.

⁴ Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

⁵ For know and recognise this: Every sexually immoral  or impure  or greedy  person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom  of Christ and of God.

Light versus Darkness

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath  is coming on the disobedient  because of these things.

⁷ Therefore, do not become their partners.

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  consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth   #– #

¹⁰ testing  what is pleasing  to the Lord.

¹¹ Don’t participate in the fruitless  works of darkness, but instead expose them.

¹² For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.

¹³ Everything exposed by the light is made visible,

¹⁴ for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper,  and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

Consistency in the Christian Life

¹⁵ Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk #– #not as unwise people but as wise #– #

¹⁶ making the most of the time,  , because the days are evil.

¹⁷ So don’t be foolish, but understand  what the Lord’s will  is.

¹⁸ And don’t get drunk  with wine,  which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:

¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,

²⁰ giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹ submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,  submit  , to your husbands  as to the Lord,

²³ because the husband is the head of the wife  as Christ is the head  of the church. He is the Saviour of the body.

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

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

²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing  her with the washing of water by the word.

²⁷ He did this to present the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and blameless.

²⁸ In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

³⁰ since we are members of his body.

³¹ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,   and the two will become one flesh.   ,

³² This mystery  is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

³³ To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.