Thematic Bible
Ephesians 5:1 (show verse)
Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,
Ephesians 5:2 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;
Ephesians 5:4 (show verse)
And shamelessness and foolish talking, or jesting, - which things are beneath you, - but, rather, giving of thanks;
Ephesians 5:5 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Do not, then, become co-partners with them;
Ephesians 5:8 (show verse)
For ye were, at one time, darkness, but, now, are ye light in the Lord, - as children of light, be walking,
Ephesians 5:9 (show verse)
For, the fruit of the light, is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, -
Ephesians 5:10 (show verse)
Putting to the test what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
Ephesians 5:11 (show verse)
And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;
Ephesians 5:12 (show verse)
For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!
Ephesians 5:13 (show verse)
All things, however, when reproved by the light, become manifest, for, all that of itself maketh manifest, is, light;
Ephesians 5:14 (show verse)
Wherefore it saith - Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
Ephesians 5:15 (show verse)
Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking, - not as unwise, but as wise, -
Ephesians 5:16 (show verse)
Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;
Ephesians 5:17 (show verse)
For this cause, do not become foolish, but have discernment as to what is the will of the Lord;
Ephesians 5:18 (show verse)
And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit; -
Ephesians 5:19 (show verse)
Speaking to yourselves, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing, and striking the strings, with your heart unto the Lord;
Ephesians 5:20 (show verse)
Giving thanks, always, for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto your God and Father;
Ephesians 5:21 (show verse)
Submitting yourselves one to another in reverence of Christ, -
Ephesians 5:22 (show verse)
Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,
Ephesians 5:23 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Nevertheless, as, the assembly, submitteth herself unto the Christ, so, the wives, unto their husbands, in everything:
Ephesians 5:25 (show verse)
Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,
Ephesians 5:26 (show verse)
That, her, he might sanctify, having purified her with the bath of water, in declaration,
Ephesians 5:27 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
No one, in fact, ever yet hated, his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, - even as, the Christ, the assembly,
Ephesians 5:30 (show verse)
Because, members, are we of his body; -
Ephesians 5:31 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
This sacred secret, is, great, - I, however, am speaking as to Christ and as tothe assembly; -
Ephesians 5:33 (show verse)
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.