Ephesians 5, side by side

¹Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

¹Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

²and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

²And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

³But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

³But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

⁴Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

⁴Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

⁵For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁵For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

⁶Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

⁷Therefore do not be partakers with them.

⁷Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

⁸For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

⁹for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

⁹(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

¹⁰Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

¹⁰Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

¹¹Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

¹¹And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

¹²For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

¹²For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

¹³But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

¹³But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

¹⁴So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

¹⁵Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

¹⁷Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

¹⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

¹⁹Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

²⁰always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁰Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

²¹Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²¹Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

²²Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

²³For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²⁴Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

²⁶to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

²⁷and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁹Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

²⁹For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

³⁰For we are members of His body.

³⁰For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

³²This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

³²This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

³³Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

³³Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.