{"id":378,"date":"2013-07-26T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/ephesians-5"},"modified":"2013-07-26T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T12:20:07","slug":"ephesians-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2013\/07\/26\/ephesians-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eph 5:1  Then become imitators of God, as beloved children,<br \/>\nEph 5:2  and walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.<br \/>\nEph 5:3  But let not fornication, and all uncleanness, or greediness, be named among you, as is fitting for saints;<br \/>\nEph 5:4  also baseness, and foolish talking, or joking (the things not becoming), but rather thanksgiving.<br \/>\nEph 5:5  For 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.<br \/>\nEph 5:6  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for through these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.<br \/>\nEph 5:7  Then do not become partakers with them;<br \/>\nEph 5:8  for you then were darkness, but are now light in the Lord; walk as children of light.<br \/>\nEph 5:9  For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,<br \/>\nEph 5:10  proving what is pleasing to the Lord.<br \/>\nEph 5:11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.<br \/>\nEph 5:12  For it is shameful even to speak of the things being done by them in secret.<br \/>\nEph 5:13  But all things being exposed by the light are clearly revealed, for everything having been revealed is light.<br \/>\nEph 5:14  Because of this, He says, Arise, sleeping ones and stand up out of the dead ones, and Christ will shine on you. No OT passage<br \/>\nEph 5:15  Then watch how carefully you walk, not as unwise, but as wise ones,<br \/>\nEph 5:16  redeeming the time, because the days are evil.<br \/>\nEph 5:17  For this reason, do not be foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.<br \/>\nEph 5:18  And &#8220;do not be drunk with wine,&#8221; in which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, Prov. 23:31<br \/>\nEph 5:19  speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and praising in your heart to the Lord,<br \/>\nEph 5:20  giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, even to God the Father,<br \/>\nEph 5:21  having been subject to one another in the fear of God.<br \/>\nEph 5:22  Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,<br \/>\nEph 5:23  because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is Head of the assembly, and He is the Savior of the body.<br \/>\nEph 5:24  But even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.<br \/>\nEph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave Himself up on its behalf,<br \/>\nEph 5:26  that He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of the water in the Word,<br \/>\nEph 5:27  that He might present it to Himself as the glorious assembly, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such things, but that it be holy and without blemish.<br \/>\nEph 5:28  So, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies, (he loving his wife loves himself),<br \/>\nEph 5:29  for then no one hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Lord the assembly.<br \/>\nEph 5:30  For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.<br \/>\nEph 5:31  &#8220;For this, a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.&#8221; Gen. 2:24<br \/>\nEph 5:32  The mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the assembly.<br \/>\nEph 5:33  However, you also, everyone, let each one love his wife as himself, and the wife, that she give deference to the husband. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eph 5:1 Then become imitators of God, as beloved children, Eph 5:2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell. 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