| 5:1 | SO then you should try to become like God, for you are his children and he loves you. |
| 5:2 | Live your lives in lovethe same sort of love which Christ gave us and which he perfectly expressed when he gave himself up for us as an offering and a sacrifice wellpleasing to God. |
| 5:3 | But as for sexual immorality in all its forms, and the itch to get your hands on what belongs to other peopledon't even talk about such things; they are no fit subjects for Christians to talk about. |
| 5:4 | The keynote of your conversation should not be coarseness or silliness or flippancywhich are quite not out of place, but a sense of all that we owe to God. |
| 5:5 | For of this you can be quite certain: that neither the immoral nor the dirtyminded nor the covetous man (whose greed makes him worship gain) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. |
| 5:6 | Don't let anyone fool you with empty words. It is these very things which bring down the wrath of God upon the disobedient. |
| 5:7 | Have nothing to do with men like that |
| 5:8 | once you were "darkness" but now as Christians you are "light". Live then as children of the light. |
| 5:9 | The light produces in men all that is good and right and true. |
| 5:10 | Let your lives be living proofs of the things which please God. |
| 5:11 | Steer clear of the fruitless activities of darkness; let your lives expose their futility. |
| 5:12 | (You know the sort of things I meanto detail their secret doings is too shameful to mention.) |
| 5:13 | For light is capable of showing up everything for what it really is. It is even possible for light to turn the thing it shines upon into light also. |
| 5:14 | Thus it is said: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, And Christ shall shine upon thee. |
| 5:15 | Live life, then, with a due sense of responsibility, not as men who do not know the meaning of life but as [those who do]. |
| 5:16 | Make the best use of your time, despite all the evils of these days. |
| 5:17 | Don't be vague but grasp firmly what you know to be the will of the Lord. |
| 5:18 | Don't get your stimulus from wine (for there is always the danger of excessive drinking), but let the Spirit stimulate your souls. |
| 5:19 | Sing among yourselves psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, your voices making music in your hearts for the ears of the Lord! |
| 5:20 | Thank God the Father at all times for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 5:21 | And "fit in with" each other, because of your common reverence for Christ. |
| 5:22 | You wives must learn to adapt yourselves to your husbands, as you submit yourselves to the Lord, |
| 5:23 | for the husband is the "head" of the wife in the same way that Christ is head of the Church and saviour of the Body. |
| 5:24 | The willing subjection of the Church to Christ should be reproduced in the submission of wives to their husbands in everything. |
| 5:25 | The husband must give his wife the same sort of love that Christ gave to the Church, when he sacrificed himself for her. |
| 5:26 | Christ gave himself to make her holy, having cleansed her through the baptism of his Word |
| 5:27 | to make her an altogether glorious Church in his eyes. She is to be free from spots, wrinkles or any other disfigurementa Church holy and perfect. |
| 5:28 | So men ought to give their wives the love they naturally have for their own bodies. The love a man gives his wife is the extending of his love for himself to enfold her. |
| 5:29 | Nobody ever hated his own body; he feeds it and looks after it. And that is what Christ does for his Body, the Church. |
| 5:30 | And we are all members of that Body. |
| 5:31 | For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh. |
| 5:32 | The marriage relationship is a great mystery, but I see it as a symbol of the marriage of Christ and his Church. |
| 5:33 | In practice what I have said amounts to this: let every one of you who is a husband love his wife as he loves himself, and let every wife respect her husband. |
Efesus 5 - Philips NT in Modern English
