Ephesianschapter 5
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A.Imitate God: Love, Not Filthinessvv. 1-7
1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. 3 But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. 4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.
B.Awake, Sleeper — Walk as Children of Lightvv. 8-14
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, 9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. 10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself. 14 So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
C.Redeem the Time; Be Filled With the Spiritvv. 15-21
15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. 18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. 19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
D.Husbands, Wives, and the Great Mysteryvv. 22-33
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her 26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. 30 For we are members of His body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Chapter summary
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us.
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Chapter summary
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us.
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Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. Fornication and all uncleanness let it not be once named. Be ye not partakers with the sons of disobedience. Walk as children of light. Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. This is a great mystery. I speak concerning Christ and the church. Henry reads the marriage section as the pattern of bridal theology.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Epistle · Paul — Ephesians overview
- A. 1–7 Imitate God: Love, Not Filthiness
- B. 8–14 Awake, Sleeper — Walk as Children of Light
- C. 15–21 Redeem the Time; Be Filled With the Spirit
- D. 22–33 Husbands, Wives, and the Great Mystery
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Ephesians 57 verses
- Ephesians 5:3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
- Ephesians 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- Ephesians 5:22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- Ephesians 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
- Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
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Colossians 37 verses
- Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- Colossians 3:8But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
- Colossians 3:14And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
- Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
- Colossians 3:17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
- Colossians 3:18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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Galatians 53 verses
- Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Galatians 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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Romans 123 verses
- Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
- Romans 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Romans 12:5so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
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Romans 133 verses
- Romans 13:11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
- Romans 13:12The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
- Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
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Colossians 13 verses
- Colossians 1:9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
- Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
- Colossians 1:22But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
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1 Peter 33 verses
- 1 Peter 3:1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
- 1 Peter 3:2when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.
- 1 Peter 3:7Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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1 Peter 12 verses
- 1 Peter 1:15But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
- 1 Peter 1:19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.