Ephesians 5
5
Walk in the Light
1Therefore be imitators of God, as dearly loved children;
2and walk in love, just as Messiah also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
3But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed—don’t even let these be mentioned among you, as is proper for kedoshim.
4Obscene, coarse, and stupid talk are also out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
5Know for certain that no immoral, indecent, or greedy person—who is really an idol worshipper at heart—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Messiah and God.
6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s judgment comes on the children of disobedience.
7Therefore do not be partners with them.
8For once you were darkness, but now in union with the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light
9(for the fruit of light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
10trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
11Take no part in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them—
12for it is disgraceful even to mention the things that are done by them in secret.
13Yet everything exposed by the light is being made visible,
14for everything made visible is light. This is why it says, “Wake up, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you.”
15So pay close attention to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise.
16Make the most of your time because the days are evil.
17For this reason do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
18And do not get drunk on wine, for that is recklessness. Instead, be filled with the Ruach,
19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your heart to the Lord—
20always giving thanks for everything to God the Father, in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Orderly Relationships: Marriage
21Also submit yourselves to one another out of reverence for Messiah—
22wives to your own husbands as to the Lord.
23For the husband is head of the wife, as Messiah also is head of His community—Himself the Savior of the body.
24But as Messiah’s community is submitted to Messiah, so also the wives to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives just as Messiah also loved His community and gave Himself up for her
26to make her holy, having cleansed her by immersion in the word.
27Messiah did this so that He might present to Himself His glorious community—not having stain or wrinkle or any such thing, but in order that she might be holy and blameless.
28In the same way, husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it—just as Messiah also does His community,
30because we are members of His body.
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.”
32This mystery is great—but I am talking about Messiah and His community.
33In any case, let each of you love his own wife as himself, and let the wife respect her husband.
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