5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved ①you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God ②as a fragrant aroma.
▷ ①One early ms us ②Lit for an odor of fragrance
5:3 But sexual immorality ①or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among ②saints;
▷ ①Lit and all ②Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
5:4 and there must be no filthiness ①or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
▷ ①Lit and
5:5 For this you know with certainty, that no sexually immoral or ①impure or greedy person, which ②amounts to an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
▷ ①I.e., morally impure ②Lit is
5:6 See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the ①sons of disobedience.
▷ ①I.e., people opposed to God
5:7 Therefore do not become partners with them;
5:8 for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
5:9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
5:10 ①as you try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
▷ ①Lit putting to the test what
5:11 Do not participate in the useless deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;
5:12 for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
5:13 But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
5:14 For this reason ①it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”
▷ ①Or He
5:15 So then, ①be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise,
▷ ①Lit look carefully
5:16 ①making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
▷ ①Lit redeeming the time
5:17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, ①in which there is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
▷ ①Or by which
5:19 speaking to ①one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord;
▷ ①Or yourselves
5:20 always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God and Father;
5:21 ①and subject yourselves to one another in the ②fear of Christ.
▷ ①Lit being submissive to ②Or reverence for
5:22 Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
5:24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
5:26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
5:27 that He might present to Himself the church ①in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
▷ ①Lit glorious
5:28 So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
5:29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
5:30 because we are parts of His body.
5:31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
5:32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
5:33 Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.