New Testament · Easy read · Ephesians
Ephesians 5
1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
2and walk in love, just as Messiah also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
3But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among holy ones;
4and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
5For this you know with certainty, that no sexually immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Messiah and God.
6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7Therefore do not be fellow participants with them;
8for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
9(for the fruit of the spirit consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
10testing what is pleasing to the Lord.
11Do not co participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;
12for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
13But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
14For this reason it says: "Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you."
15Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,
16making the most of your appointed time, because the days are evil.
17So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the spirit,
19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
20always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Yeshua Messiah to God, even the Father;
21and be subject to one another in the fear of Messiah.
22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23For a husband is the head of a wife, as Messiah also is the head of the ekklesia, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
24But as the ekklesia is subject to Messiah, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Messiah also loved the ekklesia and gave Himself up for her,
26so that He might make her holy, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
27that He might present to Himself the ekklesia in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
28So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his own wife loves himself;
29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Messiah also does the ekklesia,
30because we are members of His body.
31For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
32This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Messiah and the ekklesia.
33Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.