Thematic Bible
Ephesians 5:1 (show verse)
Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,
Ephesians 5:2 (show verse)
and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."
Ephesians 5:3 (show verse)
As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;
Ephesians 5:4 (show verse)
so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.
Ephesians 5:5 (show verse)
For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Ephesians 5:6 (show verse)
Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;
Ephesians 5:7 (show verse)
therefore do not become sharers with them.
Ephesians 5:8 (show verse)
For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.
Ephesians 5:9 (show verse)
Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.
Ephesians 5:10 (show verse)
Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord,
Ephesians 5:11 (show verse)
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.
Ephesians 5:12 (show verse)
For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret;
Ephesians 5:13 (show verse)
but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light.
Ephesians 5:14 (show verse)
For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!"
Ephesians 5:15 (show verse)
See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.
Ephesians 5:16 (show verse)
Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil.
Ephesians 5:17 (show verse)
For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is.
Ephesians 5:18 (show verse)
Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,
Ephesians 5:19 (show verse)
when you talk together; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord;
Ephesians 5:20 (show verse)
and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:21 (show verse)
Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 5:22 (show verse)
Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord,
Ephesians 5:23 (show verse)
because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves.
Ephesians 5:24 (show verse)
But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25 (show verse)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,
Ephesians 5:26 (show verse)
in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,
Ephesians 5:27 (show verse)
so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.
Ephesians 5:28 (show verse)
That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29 (show verse)
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;
Ephesians 5:30 (show verse)
for we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5:31 (show verse)
For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:32 (show verse)
There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church.
Ephesians 5:33 (show verse)
But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.