Thematic Bible
Ephesians 5:1 (show verse)
Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,
Ephesians 5:2 (show verse)
and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.
Ephesians 5:3 (show verse)
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
Ephesians 5:4 (show verse)
and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.
Ephesians 5:5 (show verse)
For this you know {for certain}, that every sexually immoral [person], or unclean [person], or greedy [person] (who is an idolater), does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Ephesians 5:6 (show verse)
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7 (show verse)
Therefore do not be sharers with them,
Ephesians 5:8 (show verse)
for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light
Ephesians 5:9 (show verse)
(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Ephesians 5:10 (show verse)
trying to learn what is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11 (show verse)
And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose [them].
Ephesians 5:12 (show verse)
For it is shameful even to speak [about] the things being [done] by them in secret,
Ephesians 5:13 (show verse)
but all [things] exposed by the light are made visible,
Ephesians 5:14 (show verse)
for everything made visible is light. Therefore it says, Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Ephesians 5:15 (show verse)
Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,
Ephesians 5:16 (show verse)
making the most of the time because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:17 (show verse)
Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].
Ephesians 5:18 (show verse)
And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,
Ephesians 5:19 (show verse)
speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord,
Ephesians 5:20 (show verse)
giving thanks always for all [things] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father,
Ephesians 5:21 (show verse)
being subject to one another {out of reverence for} Christ
Ephesians 5:22 (show verse)
--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,
Ephesians 5:23 (show verse)
because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).
Ephesians 5:24 (show verse)
But as the church is subject to Christ, thus also wives [should be subject] to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25 (show verse)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;
Ephesians 5:26 (show verse)
in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing [her] with the washing of water by the word;
Ephesians 5:27 (show verse)
in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such [thing], but that she may be holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:28 (show verse)
Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29 (show verse)
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ [does] the church,
Ephesians 5:30 (show verse)
because we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5:31 (show verse)
"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
Ephesians 5:32 (show verse)
(This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)
Ephesians 5:33 (show verse)
Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.