{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/eph005.htm","path":"bib/kjv/eph005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/eph005.htm","text":"1\u00a0Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;\n \n2\u00a0And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.\n \n3\u00a0But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;\n \n4\u00a0Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.\n \n5\u00a0For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.\n \n6\u00a0Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.\n \n7\u00a0Be not ye therefore partakers with them.\n \n8\u00a0For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:\n \n9\u00a0(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)\n \n10\u00a0Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.\n \n11\u00a0And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.\n \n12\u00a0For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.\n \n13\u00a0But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.\n \n14\u00a0Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.\n \n15\u00a0See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,\n \n16\u00a0Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.\n \n17\u00a0Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.\n \n18\u00a0And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;\n \n19\u00a0Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;\n \n20\u00a0Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;\n \n21\u00a0Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.\n \n22\u00a0Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.\n \n23\u00a0For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.\n \n24\u00a0Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.\n \n25\u00a0Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;\n \n26\u00a0That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,\n \n27\u00a0That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.\n \n28\u00a0So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.\n \n29\u00a0For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:\n \n30\u00a0For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.\n \n31\u00a0For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.\n \n32\u00a0This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.\n \n33\u00a0Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.","title":"King James Version: Ephesians: Ephesians Chapter 5","type":"page"}