New Testament · Letters

Ephesians chapter 5

So be of God, like children copying their father.And in , just like loved us and gave himself up for us—an to God that was like the .As for , any kind of , or , don’t even let these be mentioned among you. That’s what’s fitting for .And there should be no , , or —none of that is appropriate. Instead, let there be .Because you can be absolutely sure of this: no sexually immoral person, no one living in impurity, and no one —which is really the same as —has any share in the of The One and of God.Don’t let anyone deceive you with , because it’s exactly these things that bring down on .So don’t with them in any of that.Because you used to be itself, but now you are in . So live as people of light.(Because the that light produces is found in everything that’s , , and true.) what pleases the Lord,and don’t get involved in the that belong to the darkness. Instead, them for what they are.Because the things people do in secret are too to even talk about.But everything exposed by the light becomes , because it’s the nature of light to make everything clear.That’s why it says: “! , and The One will .”So how you live—not like people who don’t think things through, but like people who are ., because we’re living in .So don’t be . Instead, understand what the Lord wants.And don’t get —that’s just a path to . Instead, be filled with .Speak to one another with , , and . Sing and make music to the Lord from your heart,always to God the Father for everything, our Lord Jesus, The One. out of for The One.Wives, as you do under the Lord.Because a husband is the of his wife in the same way that The One is the head of —and he is the of this .But just as the gathered community The One, wives should do the same with their husbands in everything.Husbands, your wives in the same way The One loved the gathered community and for her—to , her by through ,so that he could the gathered community to himself in all her , with no stain or wrinkle or anything of the kind, and .In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives . A man who loves his wife is really loving himself.After all, no one has ever hated their own body. Instead, they it and it, just like The One does for the gathered community,because we are .“This is why a man his father and mother and is his wife, and the two become .”This is a —but I’m talking about The One and the gathered community.In any case, each one of you should his wife as himself, and the wife should her husband.