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Epistle to the Ephesians, Chapter 5

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Ephesians 5 NASB - New American Standard BibleEphesians 5 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 5 of Ephesians—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. 1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
  2. and 2walk in love, just as Christ also 3loved [a]you and 4gave Himself up for us, an 5offering and a sacrifice to God [b]as a 6fragrant aroma.
  3. ¶ But 7immorality [c]or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among [d]saints;
  4. and there must be no 8filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which 9are not fitting, but rather 10giving of thanks.
  5. For this you know with certainty, that 11no [e]immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom 12of Christ and God.
  6. 13Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things 14the wrath of God comes upon 15the sons of disobedience.
  7. Therefore do not be 16partakers with them;
  8. for 17you were formerly 18darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as 19children of Light
  9. (for 20the fruit of the Light consists in all 21goodness and righteousness and truth),
  10. [f]22trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
  11. 23Do not participate in the unfruitful 24deeds of 25darkness, but instead even [g]26expose them;
  12. for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
  13. But all things become visible 27when they are [h]exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
  14. For this reason [i]it says,
    ¶ “28Awake, sleeper,
    And arise from 29the dead,
    And Christ 30will shine on you.”
  15. ¶ Therefore [j]be careful how you 31walk, not 32as unwise men but as wise,
  16. [k]33making the most of your time, because 34the days are evil.
  17. So then do not be foolish, but 35understand what the will of the Lord is.
  18. And 36do not get drunk with wine, [l]for that is 37dissipation, but be 38filled with the Spirit,
  19. 39speaking to [m]one another in 40psalms and 41hymns and spiritual 42songs, 43singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
  20. 44always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to [n]45God, even the Father;
  21. [o]46and be subject to one another in the [p]47fear of Christ.
  22. 48Wives, 49be subject to your own husbands, 50as to the Lord.
  23. For 51the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the 52head of the church, He Himself 53being the Savior of the body.
  24. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
  25. 54Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and 55gave Himself up for her,
  26. 56so that He might sanctify her, having 57cleansed her by the 58washing of water with 59the word,
  27. that He might 60present to Himself the church [q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be 61holy and blameless.
  28. So husbands ought also to 62love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
  29. for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
  30. because we are 63members of His 64body.
  31. 65FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
  32. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
  33. Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to 66love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she [r]67respects her husband.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ One early ms reads us
  2. ^ Lit for an odor of fragrance
  3. ^ Lit and all
  4. ^ Or holy ones
  5. ^ I.e. one who commits sexual immorality
  6. ^ Lit proving what
  7. ^ Or reprove
  8. ^ Or reproved
  9. ^ Or He
  10. ^ Lit look carefully
  11. ^ Lit redeeming the time
  12. ^ Lit in which is
  13. ^ Or yourselves
  14. ^ Lit the God and Father
  15. ^ Lit being subject
  16. ^ Or reverence
  17. ^ Lit glorious
  18. ^ Lit fear

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Mt 5:48; Lu 6:36; Eph 4:32
  2. ^ Ro 14:15; Col 3:14
  3. ^ Jn 13:34; Ro 8:37
  4. ^ Jn 6:51; Ro 4:25; Ga 2:20; Eph 5:25
  5. ^ Heb 7:27; 9:14; 10:10, 12
  6. ^ Ex 29:18, 25; 2Co 2:14
  7. ^ Col 3:5
  8. ^ Mt 12:34; Eph 4:29; Col 3:8
  9. ^ Ro 1:28
  10. ^ Eph 5:20
  11. ^ 1Co 6:9; Col 3:5
  12. ^ Col 1:13
  13. ^ Col 2:8
  14. ^ Ro 1:18; Col 3:6
  15. ^ Eph 2:2
  16. ^ Eph 3:6
  17. ^ Eph 2:2
  18. ^ Ac 26:18; Col 1:12f
  19. ^ Jn 12:36; Ro 13:12
  20. ^ Ga 5:22
  21. ^ Ro 15:14
  22. ^ Ro 12:2
  23. ^ 1Co 5:9; 2Co 6:14
  24. ^ Ro 13:12
  25. ^ Ac 26:18; Col 1:12f
  26. ^ 1Ti 5:20
  27. ^ Jn 3:20f
  28. ^ Is 26:19; 51:17; 52:1; 60:1; Ro 13:11
  29. ^ Eph 2:1
  30. ^ Lu 1:78f
  31. ^ Eph 5:2
  32. ^ Col 4:5
  33. ^ Col 4:5
  34. ^ Ga 1:4; Eph 6:13
  35. ^ Ro 12:2; Col 1:9; 1Th 4:3
  36. ^ Pr 20:1; 23:31f; Ro 13:13; 1Co 5:11; 1Th 5:7
  37. ^ Ti 1:6; 1Pe 4:4
  38. ^ Lu 1:15
  39. ^ Col 3:16
  40. ^ 1Co 14:26
  41. ^ Ac 16:25
  42. ^ Re 5:9
  43. ^ 1Co 14:15
  44. ^ Ro 1:8; Eph 5:4; Col 3:17
  45. ^ 1Co 15:24
  46. ^ Ga 5:13; Pp 2:3; 1Pe 5:5
  47. ^ 2Co 5:11
  48. ^ Eph 5:22-6:9; Col 3:18-4:1
  49. ^ 1Co 14:34f; Ti 2:5; 1Pe 3:1
  50. ^ Eph 6:5
  51. ^ 1Co 11:3
  52. ^ Eph 1:22
  53. ^ 1Co 6:13
  54. ^ Eph 5:28, 33; Col 3:19; 1Pe 3:7
  55. ^ Eph 5:2
  56. ^ Ti 2:14; Heb 10:10, 14, 29; 13:12
  57. ^ 2Pe 1:9
  58. ^ Ac 22:16; 1Co 6:11; Ti 3:5
  59. ^ Jn 15:3; 17:17; Ro 10:8f; Eph 6:17
  60. ^ 2Co 4:14; 11:2; Col 1:22
  61. ^ Eph 1:4
  62. ^ Eph 5:25, 33; 1Pe 3:7
  63. ^ 1Co 6:15; 12:27
  64. ^ Eph 1:23
  65. ^ Ge 2:24; Mt 19:5; Mr 10:7f
  66. ^ Eph 5:25, 28; 1Pe 3:7
  67. ^ 1Pe 3:2, 5f

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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