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Ephesians 5 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Be Imitators of God

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Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:2 - and walk in love, just as Christ also loved [fn]us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God [fn]as a fragrant aroma.

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But sexual immorality [fn]or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among [fn]saints;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:4 - nor filthiness and foolish talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:5 - For this you know with certainty, that no one sexually immoral or impure or greedy, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:7 - Therefore do not be partakers with them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:8 - for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:9 - (for the fruit of that light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:10 - [fn]trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:11 - And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even [fn]expose them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:12 - For it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:13 - But all things become visible when they are [fn]exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:14 - For this reason [fn]it says,

“Awake, sleeper,

And arise from the dead,

And Christ will shine on you.”

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Therefore look carefully how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:16 - redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:17 - On account of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:18 - And do not get drunk with wine, [fn]for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:19 - speaking to [fn]one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:20 - always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to [fn]God, even the Father;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:21 - [fn]and being subject to one another in the [fn]fear of Christ.

Wives and Husbands

(cf. Col 3:18, 19 )

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Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:24 - But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:26 - so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:27 - that He might present to Himself the church [fn]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be holy and blameless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:28 - So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:29 - for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:30 - because we are members of His body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:31 - FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:32 - This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:33 - Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she [fn]respects her husband.
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LSB Footnotes
Some mss you
Lit for an odor of fragrance
Lit and all
Or holy ones
Lit proving what
Or reprove
Or reproved
Or He
Lit in which is
Or yourselves
Lit the God and Father
Lit being subject
Or reverence
Lit glorious
Lit fear, cf. 5:21
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