KJ3 Literal Translation
Ephesians 5
2 After general exhortations, 22 he shows how wives ought to obey their husbands, 25 and husbands ought to love their wives.
1Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,
2and walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrance of a sweet smell.
3But let not fornication, and all uncleanness, or greediness, be named among you, as is fitting for saints;
4also baseness, and foolish talking, or joking (the things not becoming), but rather thanksgiving.
5For be knowing this, that every fornicator, or unclean one, or covetous one, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
7Therefore do not become partakers with them;
8for you then were darkness, but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light.
9For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
10proving what is pleasing to the Lord.
11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
12For it is shameful even to speak of the things being done by them in secret.
13But all things being exposed by the light are clearly revealed, for everything being revealed is light.
14Therefore He says, “Rise up, the one sleeping, and stand up out of the dead ones, and Christ will shine on you.” No O. T. passage
15Then watch how carefully you walk, not as unwise, but as wise ones,
16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17For this reason, do not become foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18And “do not be drunk with wine,” in which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, Prov. 23:31
19speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming in your heart to the Lord,
20giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, even to God the Father,
21subjecting ourselves to one another in the fear of God.
22Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
23because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is Head of the Assembly, and He is Savior of the body.
24But even as the Assembly is subject to Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Assembly and gave Himself up on her behalf,
26that He might sanctify her, cleansing it by the bathing of the water in the Word,
27that He might present her to Himself as the glorious Assembly, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such things, but that she be holy and without blemish.
28So, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies, (he loving his wife loves himself),
29for then no one hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes her, even as also the Lord the Assembly.
30For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
31“For this reason , a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:24
32The mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the Assembly.
33However, you also, everyone, let each love his wife as himself, and the wife, that she give deference to the husband.
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