Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NLT

NLT

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Ephesians 5 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles
Living in the Light

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:1 - Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:2 - Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us[fn] and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:3 - Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:4 - Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:5 - You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:6 - Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:7 - Don’t participate in the things these people do.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:8 - For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:9 - For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:10 - Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:11 - Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:12 - It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:13 - But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:14 - for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,
“Awake, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will give you light.”
Living by the Spirit’s Power

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:15 - So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:16 - Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:17 - Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:18 - Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:19 - singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:20 - And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Spirit-Guided Relationships: Wives and Husbands

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:21 - And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
(cf. Col 3:18, 19 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:22 - For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:23

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:24 - As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:25 - For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:26 - to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:27 - He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:28 - In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:29 - No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:30 - And we are members of his body.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:31 - As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:32 - This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:33 - So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Some manuscripts read loved you.
Greek washed by water with the word.
Gen 2:24.
NLT

Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Full copyright information is provided here. Visit the New Living Translation website.

For more information on this translation, see the NLT Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NLT
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NLT
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Ephesians Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras