Ephesians 5 Neues Testament der Amerikanischen Bibelunion 1865

¹ BECOME therefore followers of God, as beloved children

² and walk in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints,

⁴ and filthiness, and foolish talking, and jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

⁵ For this ye know, being aware that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷ Become not therefore partakers with them.

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

⁹ for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,—

¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord;

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

¹² For it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret.

¹³ But all things, when reproved, are by the light made manifest; for whatever makes manifest is light.

¹⁴ Wherefore he says: Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.

¹⁵ See to it then, how ye walk with exactness, not as unwise, but as wise,

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Therefore be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

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

¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things, to God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

²¹ submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ;

²² wives to their own husbands, as to the Lord.

²³ Because a husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; himself the Savior of the body.

²⁴ But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bathing of water in the word,

²⁷ that he might himself present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and blameless.

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

²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the church;

³⁰ because we are members of his body, ^{1 being ×} of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.

³³ Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.