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Ephesians 5:17-27

17 Don't be fools, then, but try to find out what the Lord wants you to do.

17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

18 Do not get drunk with wine, which will only ruin you; instead, be filled with the Spirit.

18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,

19 Speak to one another with the words of psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing hymns and psalms to the Lord with praise in your hearts.

19 speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord,

20 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father.

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

21 Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

23 For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Savior of the church, his body.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

24 And so wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.

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

25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

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

26 He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,

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

27 in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty - pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.

27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.