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Ephesians 5

Common English Bible CEB

1 Therefore, imitate God like dearly loved children.

2 Live your life with love, following the example of Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us. He was a sacrificial offering that smelled sweet to God.

3 Sexual immorality, and any kind of impurity or greed, shouldn't even be mentioned among you, which is right for holy persons.

4 Obscene language, silly talk, or vulgar jokes aren't acceptable for believers. Instead, there should be thanksgiving.

5 Because you know for sure that persons who are sexually immoral, impure, or greedy—which happens when things become gods—those persons won't inherit the kingdom of Christ and God.

6 Nobody should deceive you with stupid ideas. God's anger comes down on those who are disobedient because of this kind of thing.

7 So you shouldn't have anything to do with them.

8 You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord, so live your life as children of light.

9 Light produces fruit that consists of every sort of goodness, justice, and truth.

10 Therefore, test everything to see what's pleasing to the Lord,

11 and don't participate in the unfruitful actions of darkness. Instead, you should reveal the truth about them.

12 It's embarrassing to even talk about what certain persons do in secret.

13 But everything exposed to the light is revealed by the light.

14 Everything that is revealed by the light is light. Therefore, it says, Wake up, sleeper!Get up from the dead,and Christ will shine on you.

15 So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly.

16 Take advantage of every opportunity because these are evil times.

17 Because of this, don't be ignorant, but understand the Lord's will.

18 Don't get drunk on wine, which produces depravity. Instead, be filled with the Spirit in the following ways:

19 speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; sing and make music to the Lord in your hearts;

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

21 and submit to each other out of respect for Christ.

22 For example, wives should submit to their husbands as if to the Lord.

23 A husband is the head of his wife like Christ is head of the church, that is, the savior of the body.

24 So wives submit to their husbands in everything like the church submits to Christ.

25 As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.

26 He did this to make her holy by washing her in a bath of water with the word.

27 He did this to present himself with a splendid church, one without any sort of stain or wrinkle on her clothes, but rather one that is holy and blameless.

28 That's how husbands ought to love their wives—in the same way as they do their own bodies. Anyone who loves his wife loves himself.

29 No one ever hates his own body, but feeds it and takes care of it just like Christ does for the church

30 because we are parts of his body.

31 This is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two of them will be one body.

32 Marriage is a significant allegory, and I'm applying it to Christ and the church.

33 In any case, as for you individually, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and wives should respect their husbands.

New Revised Standard NRS

1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,

2 and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

3 But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.

4 Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving.

5 Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure person, or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.

7 Therefore do not be associated with them.

8 For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light—

9 for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

10 Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.

11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

12 For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly;

13 but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

14 for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

15 Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise,

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

17 So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

18 Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

19 as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,

20 giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.

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

24 Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

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

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

27 so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish.

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

29 For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

30 because 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 is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.

33 Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.