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Ephesians 5:2 (NLT)

Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.

Ephesians 5:20 (NLT)

And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 5:21 (NLT)

And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:22 (NLT)

For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:23 (NLT)

For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.

Ephesians 5:24 (NLT)

As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:25 (NLT)

For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her

Ephesians 5:26 (NLT)

to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.

Ephesians 5:27 (NLT)

He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

Ephesians 5:28 (NLT)

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.

Ephesians 5:29 (NLT)

No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.

Ephesians 5:1 (NLT)

Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.

Ephesians 5:3 (NLT)

Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.

Ephesians 5:4 (NLT)

Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.

Ephesians 5:5 (NLT)

You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.

Ephesians 5:6 (NLT)

Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.

Ephesians 5:7 (NLT)

Don’t participate in the things these people do.

Ephesians 5:8 (NLT)

For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!

Ephesians 5:9 (NLT)

For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.

Ephesians 5:10 (NLT)

Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 5:11 (NLT)

Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.

Ephesians 5:12 (NLT)

It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.

Ephesians 5:13 (NLT)

But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them,

Ephesians 5:14 (NLT)

for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

Ephesians 5:15 (NLT)

So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.