Epheser 5

1. ¹Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,
2. ²and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
3. ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
4. ⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
5. ⁵For this ye are [ergänzt: well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
6. ⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7. ⁷Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;
8. ⁸for ye were once darkness, but now light in [ergänzt: the] Lord; walk as children of light,
9. ⁹(for the fruit of the light [ergänzt: is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
10. ¹⁰proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
11. ¹¹and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [ergänzt: them],
12. ¹²for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.
13. ¹³But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.
14. ¹⁴Wherefore he says, Wake up, [ergänzt: thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
15. ¹⁵See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,
16. ¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17. ¹⁷For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [ergänzt: is] the will of the Lord.
18. ¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
19. ¹⁹speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;
20. ²⁰giving thanks at all times for all things to him [ergänzt: who is] God and [ergänzt: the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21. ²¹submitting yourselves to one another in [ergänzt: the] fear of Christ.
22. ²²Wives, [ergänzt: submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
23. ²³for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [ergänzt: is] head of the assembly. *He* [ergänzt: is] Saviour of the body.
24. ²⁴But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
25. ²⁵Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
26. ²⁶in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [ergänzt: it] by the washing of water by [ergänzt: the] word,
27. ²⁷that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.
28. ²⁸So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.
29. ²⁹For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:
30. ³⁰for we are members of his body; [ergänzt: we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]
31. ³¹Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
32. ³²This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.
33. ³³But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [ergänzt: I speak] that she may fear the husband.

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