Ephesians 5 - Heartlight

¹Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

²and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

          3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
          4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
          5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

⁷Therefore do not be partakers with them.

          8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
          9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
          10Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

¹¹Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

¹²For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

¹³But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

¹⁴So it is said:

“Wake up, O sleeper,

rise up from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you.”

          15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
          16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
          17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
          18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

¹⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

²⁰always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

          22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
          23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
          24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

          25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
          26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
          27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

          28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
          29Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
          30For we are members of His body.

          31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
          32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
          33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

— Ephesians 5

(BSB)

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