Ephesians 5
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1Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, 2and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, # 5:2 2Th 2:13; Ti 2:14 a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3But sexual immorality # 5:3 1Th 4:3 and any impurity # 5:3 1Th 4:7 or greed # 5:3 Lk 12:15; Rm 1:29; Eph 4:19; Col 3:5; 1Th 2:5; 2Pt 2:3,14 should not even be heard of # 5:3 Or be named among you, as is proper for saints. 4Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 5For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral # 5:5 1Co 5:9 or impure # 5:5 2Co 6:17 or greedy # 5:5 1Co 5:10–11; 6:10 person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom # 5:5 Mk 1:15 of Christ and of God.
Light versus Darkness
6Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath # 5:6 Rm 2:5; Rv 6:16 is coming on the disobedient # 5:6 Lit sons of disobedience because of these things. 7Therefore, do not become their partners. 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light # 5:8 Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46 in the Lord. Walk as children of light # 5:8 Is 2:5; Lk 16:8; Jn 12:35–36 — 9for the fruit of the light # 5:9 Other mss read fruit of the Spirit consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth # 5:9 Eph 5:17 — 10testing # 5:10 Rm 12:2 what is pleasing # 5:10 Lk 18:18 to the Lord. 11Don’t participate in the fruitless # 5:11 Gl 5:22; Ti 3:14 works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. 13Everything exposed by the light is made visible, # 5:13 1Jn 1:2 14for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:
Get up, sleeper, # 5:14 Pr 6:4 and rise up from the dead, # 5:14 Jn 5:25
and Christ will shine on you. # 5:14 Is 26:19; 51:17; 52:1; 60:1; Mal 4:2; Lk 1:78–79; Rm 13:11
Consistency in the Christian Life
15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk — not as unwise people but as wise — 16making the most of the time, # 5:16 Lit buying back the time,# 5:16 Col 4:5 because the days are evil. 17So don’t be foolish, but understand # 5:17 Jr 31:31–34; Ezk 36:26–27; Rm 12:2; Php 1:9–10; 1Th 5:21 what the Lord’s will # 5:17 Ps 143:10; Pr 16:9; Gl 1:4; Eph 1:9 is. 18And don’t get drunk # 5:18 Lk 12:45; Jn 2:10; 1Th 5:7; Rv 17:2 with wine, # 5:18 Gn 9:21; Dt 7:13; Ps 4:7; Pr 3:10; Lk 5:37 which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit: # 5:18 Lk 1:15; Ac 13:52 19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, 20giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. # 5:18–21 Col 3:16–17; 1Pt 1:17
Wives and Husbands
22Wives, # 5:22 1Pt 3:1 submit # 5:22 Other mss omit submit,# 5:22 Gn 3:16; 1Co 11:3,7–9,11–12; Col 3:18; Ti 2:4–5; 1Pt 3:1–6 to your husbands # 5:22 1Pt 3:1 as to the Lord, 23because the husband is the head of the wife # 5:23 1Co 11:3 as Christ is the head # 5:23 Col 2:10 of the church. He is the Savior of the body. # 5:23 Col 3:18–4:1 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, # 5:25 Col 3:19; 1Pt 3:7 just as Christ loved # 5:25 Jn 3:16; 1Co 13:1; 2Th 2:13 the church and gave himself # 5:25 Ti 2:14 for her 26to make her holy, cleansing # 5:26 Or having cleansed her with the washing of water by the word. 27He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. # 5:27 Jd 24 28In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30since we are members of his body. # 5:30 Other mss add and of his flesh and of his bones 31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, # 5:31 1Pt 3:1 and the two will become one flesh. # 5:31 Gn 2:24,# 5:31 Gn 2:24 32This mystery # 5:32 1Co 2:7 is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
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Ephesians 5
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1Therefore, be imitators of Hashem as beloved yeladim, 2And fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech in ahavah, as also Moshiach had ahavah for us and gave Himself up on behalf of us as a korban and zevach to Hashem for a RE'ACH HANNICHOACH#5:2 Gn 8:21 (a pleasant aroma).
3But do not let zenut (fornication) or anything of tumah (uncleanness) or chamdanut (covetousness) even be named among you, as is proper for Kedoshim. 4And also let there be nothing that is an ERVAT DAVAR (indecent thing) or the tipshus (foolery) or foolish talking of letzim (coarse jesting) or shtiklech (misconduct), which are not fitting, but rather hodayah (thanksgiving). 5For of this you have da'as vada (with certainty), that every zoneh (fornicator) or impure person or covetous person — chamdanut is avodah zarah, avodah elilim — does not have a nachalah in the Malchut of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and of Hashem. 6Let no one deceive you with empty devarim. For, because of these things the Charon Af Hashem comes upon the Bnei HaMeri (sons of Rebellion). 7Therefore, do not be shuttafim (partners) with them. 8For you were once Choshech, but now you are Ohr (Light) in Hashem. Fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech as yeladim of HaOhr. 9For the p'ri HaOhr is in doing chesed and tzedek and emes, 10Proving that which is well-pleasing be'einei Hashem (in the eyes of G-d). 11And do not involve yourself in the ma'asei haChoshech (works of darkness), those works without p'ri; but rather even expose them. 12For as to the things being done by them under cover of secrecy, it brings bushah (shame) and is a bizayon (disgrace) even to speak of them. 13But everything being exposed by HaOhr (Light) becomes visible, 14For everything becoming visible is HaOhr (Light); therefore here is the meaning of these words, KUMI#5:14 Isa 51:17; 60:1 (Rise up), sleeper, and arise from the MESIM,#5:14 Isa 26:19 AND Moshiach WILL SHINE ON YOU.#5:14 Isa 60:1-2; Mal 3:20
15Therefore, fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech with a careful walk, not as kesilim (fools) but as chachamim (wise ones), 16Redeeming the time, because the yamim are ra'im. 17Therefore, do not be foolish, but have binah of what the ratzon Hashem is. 18And do not become a shikker with schnapps, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Ruach Hakodesh,#5:18 Lv 10:9; Prov 20:1; Isa 28:7 19Speaking to one another in Tehillim and shirim and hymns and neshamah niggunim mi Ruach Hakodesh (soul melodies from the Ruach Hakodesh), singing and making melody in your levavot to Adonoi,#5:19 Ps 27:6 20Giving todot always for everything to Eloheinu, even Avinu b'Shem Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,#5:20 Job 1:21; Ps 34:1 21Being submissive to one another in the yirat HaMoshiach.
22Nashim (wives), make yourselves accountable to your ba'alim (husbands) as to Adoneinu,#5:22 Gn 3:16 23Because a ba'al (husband) is rosh of the isha as also Moshiach is rosh of the Brit Chadasha Kehillah, being Himself the Go'el (Savior) of HaGuf (the Body of Moshiach).#5:23 Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:11 24But as the Brit Chadasha Kehillah is accountable to Moshiach, so also the nashim should be to their ba'alim in everything.
25Ba'alim, have ahavah for your nashim, as also Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has ahavah for the Brit Chadasha Kehillah and gave Himself up on behalf of her, 26That He might bring her to kedushah, having given her tohorah (purification) by the tevilah of the mikveh mayim of the Dvar Hashem, 27That he [as a Choson] might present to Himself [as His Kallah] the Brit Chadasha Kehillah in all her kavod TAMIM#5:27 Ex 12:5; Lv 22:20; Isa 53:7-9 SHIR HASHIRIM (unblemished) and without wrinkle or any such things, but that she may be kedoshah and without blemish. 28So also the ba'alim ought to show ahavah for their own nashim as their own gufim;#5:28 Gn 2:23-24 the one with ahavah for his own isha has ahavah for himself, 29For no one ever had sin'as chinom for his own basar but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach also does the Brit Chadasha Kehillah, 30Because we are evarim of HaGuf HaMoshiach. 31AL KEN YAAZAV ISH ES AVIV V'ES IMMO V'DAVAK B'ISHTO V'HAYU L'VASAR ECHAD (Because of this a man will leave his father and his mother, and will be joined to the wife of him, and the two will be one basar).#5:31 Gn 2:24 32This is a sod hagadol, but I am referring to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the Brit Chadasha Kehillah.#5:32 Song 3:6—4:12; Gn 2:23,24; 24:1-7; 41:45; 47:18; Ex 2:21; Ruth 1:16-17; 3:9 33Each of you, however, should show ahavah for his isha as himself, and an isha should reverence her ba'al (husband).
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