Thematic Bible
Ephesians 5:1 (show verse)
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
Ephesians 5:2 (show verse)
and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.
Ephesians 5:3 (show verse)
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,
Ephesians 5:4 (show verse)
neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor indecent jesting, which are not becoming; but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5:5 (show verse)
For of this ye are sure, since ye know that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Ephesians 5:6 (show verse)
Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7 (show verse)
Be not therefore partakers with them.
Ephesians 5:8 (show verse)
For ye were once darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord. Walk as 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)
proving what is acceptable to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:11 (show verse)
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Ephesians 5:12 (show verse)
For the things done in secret by them it is a shame even to speak of.
Ephesians 5:13 (show verse)
But all things, when reproved, are made manifest by the light; for whatever maketh manifest is light.
Ephesians 5:14 (show verse)
Wherefore he saith, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light."
Ephesians 5:15 (show verse)
See then that ye walk circumspectly; not as unwise men, but as wise;
Ephesians 5:16 (show verse)
buying up for yourselves opportunities, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:17 (show verse)
Wherefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:18 (show verse)
And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled with the Spirit,
Ephesians 5:19 (show verse)
speaking to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:20 (show verse)
giving thanks always for all things to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ephesians 5:21 (show verse)
submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Ephesians 5:22 (show verse)
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:23 (show verse)
for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,he, who is the Saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:24 (show verse)
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25 (show verse)
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,
Ephesians 5:26 (show verse)
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of the water in the word;
Ephesians 5:27 (show verse)
that he himself might present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:28 (show verse)
In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;
Ephesians 5:29 (show verse)
for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ doth the church;
Ephesians 5:30 (show verse)
for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 5:31 (show verse)
"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."
Ephesians 5:32 (show verse)
This mystery is a great one; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.
Ephesians 5:33 (show verse)
However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.