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Ephesians 5 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Walk in Love
Walk in Love, Light, and Wisdom

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:1 - Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:2 - And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:3 - But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:4 - neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:5 - For this you know,[fn] that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:6 - Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:7 - Therefore do not be partakers with them.
Walk in Light

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:8 - For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:9 - (for the fruit of the Spirit[fn] is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:10 - finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:11 - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:12 - For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:13 - But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:14 - Therefore He says:

“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”
Walk in Wisdom

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:15 - See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:16 - redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:17 - Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:18 - And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:19 - speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:20 - giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:21 - submitting to one another in the fear of God.[fn]
Marriage—Christ and the Church
(cf. Col. 3:18, 19 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:22 - Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:23 - For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:24 - Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:25 - Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:26 - that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:27 - that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:28 - So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:29 - For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:30 - For we are members of His body,[fn] of His flesh and of His bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:31 - “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:32 - This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:33 - Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text reads For know this.
NU-Text reads light.
NU-Text reads Christ.
NU-Text omits the rest of this verse.
Genesis 2:24
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