Modern Literal Version
[Ephesians 5]
5:1 Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children, 5:2 and walk in love*, just-as Christ also loved* us and gave himself up on our behalf as an offering and a sacrifice to God *for an aroma of a sweet-fragrance.
5:3 But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or greed be even named among you*, as is suitable to holy-ones; 5:4 nor obscenity, nor foolish talk or petty jesting, which are not proper; but rather the giving of thanks. 5:5 For* this you* know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 5:6 Let no one deceive you* with empty words; for* because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. 5:7 Therefore do not become joint partakers with them. 5:8 For* you*were previously in darkness, but now you* are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 5:9 (for*the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 5:10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but also rather reprove them; 5:12 for* it is shameful even to speak of the things being done by them covertly. 5:13 But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light; for* everything that is made manifest is light. 5:14 Hence he says, Awake, you who are sleeping and rise* up from the dead and Christ will appear upon you. {Is. 60:1? Maybe an early hymn?}
5:15 Therefore beware how accurately you* are walking, not as unwise, but as wise; 5:16 buying up the time, because the days are evil. 5:17 Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 5:18 And do not be drunken with wine, in which there is riotousness, but be filled with the Spirit; 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing-praise in your* heart to the Lord; 5:20 giving-thanks always on behalf of all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; 5:21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
5:22 Wives be subject to your* own husbands, as to the Lord. 5:23 Because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is also the head of the congregation, he is the savior of the body. 5:24 But as the congregation is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be subject to their own husbands in everything.
5:25 Husbands, love* your* wives, just-as Christ also loved* the congregation and gave himself up on behalf of her; 5:26 in order that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her in the bath of water by the word, 5:27 that* he might present the congregation to himself a glorious congregation, not having stain or wrinkle or any such thing; but that* she should be holy and unblemished. 5:28 So husbands also ought to love* their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves* his own wife loves* himself. 5:29 For* no one ever hated his own flesh; but is nourishing and cherishing it, just-as the Lord also does the congregation; 5:30 because we are members of his body, out of his flesh and out of his bones. 5:31 Because of this, a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 5:32 This mystery is great; but I am speakingin regard to Christ and the congregation. 5:33 However let each one of you* individually love* his own wife like himself, and let the wife see that* she should fear her husband.
Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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