Thematic Bible

Ephesians 5:1

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love - even as, the Christ also, loved you, and delivered himself up in your behalf, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for a fragrance of sweet smell.

Ephesians 5:3

But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;

Ephesians 5:4

And shamelessness and foolish talking, or jesting, - which things are beneath you, - but, rather, giving of thanks;

Ephesians 5:5

For, this, ye know, if ye take note - that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:

Ephesians 5:7

Do not, then, become co-partners with them;

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were, at one time, darkness, but, now, are ye light in the Lord, - as children of light, be walking,

Ephesians 5:9

For, the fruit of the light, is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, -

Ephesians 5:10

Putting to the test what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

Ephesians 5:11

And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;

Ephesians 5:12

For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!

Ephesians 5:13

All things, however, when reproved by the light, become manifest, for, all that of itself maketh manifest, is, light;

Ephesians 5:14

Wherefore it saith - Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

Ephesians 5:15

Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking, - not as unwise, but as wise, -

Ephesians 5:16

Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;

Ephesians 5:17

For this cause, do not become foolish, but have discernment as to what is the will of the Lord;

Ephesians 5:18

And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit; -

Ephesians 5:19

Speaking to yourselves, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing, and striking the strings, with your heart unto the Lord;

Ephesians 5:20

Giving thanks, always, for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto your God and Father;

Ephesians 5:21

Submitting yourselves one to another in reverence of Christ, -

Ephesians 5:22

Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,

Ephesians 5:23

Because, a husband, is the head of his wife, as, the Christ also, is the head of the assembly, he, being the saviour of the body, -

Ephesians 5:24

Nevertheless, as, the assembly, submitteth herself unto the Christ, so, the wives, unto their husbands, in everything:

Ephesians 5:25

Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,

Ephesians 5:26

That, her, he might sanctify, having purified her with the bath of water, in declaration,

Ephesians 5:27

That, he, might present, unto himself, the assembly, all glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she should be holy and blameless;

Ephesians 5:28

So, ought the husbands also to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies, - he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,

Ephesians 5:29

No one, in fact, ever yet hated, his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, - even as, the Christ, the assembly,

Ephesians 5:30

Because, members, are we of his body; -

Ephesians 5:31

For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and will cleave unto his wife, and, they two, shall become, one flesh.

Ephesians 5:32

This sacred secret, is, great, - I, however, am speaking as to Christ and as tothe assembly; -

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, see that she reverence her husband.