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Ephesians 5:1 | Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children. | Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; | Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; |
Ephesians 5:2 | And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor. | And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. | And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. |
Ephesians 5:3 | But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people. | But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; | But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; |
Ephesians 5:4 | Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting they are all alike discreditable and in place of these give thanks. | Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. | Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. |
Ephesians 5:5 | For be well assured that no fornicator or immoral person and no money-grubber or in other words idol-worshipper has any share awaiting him in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. | For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. | For this ye know, that no lewd, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. |
Ephesians 5:6 | Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient. | Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. | Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. |
Ephesians 5:7 | Therefore do not become sharers with them. | Be not ye therefore partakers with them. | Be ye not therefore partakers with them. |
Ephesians 5:8 | There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself. | For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: | For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light; |
Ephesians 5:9 | Live and act as sons of Light for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth | (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) | (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth;) |
Ephesians 5:10 | and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord. | Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. | Proving what is acceptable to the Lord. |
Ephesians 5:11 | Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them; | And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. | And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. |
Ephesians 5:12 | for the things which are done by these people in secret it is disgraceful even to speak of. | For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. | For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. |
Ephesians 5:13 | But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light. | But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. | But all things that are reproved, are made manifest by the light: for whatever doth make manifest is light. |
Ephesians 5:14 | For this reason it is said, "Rise, sleeper; rise from among the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you." | Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. | Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light. |
Ephesians 5:15 | Therefore be very careful how you live and act. Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise. | See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, | See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, |
Ephesians 5:16 | Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times. | Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. | Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
Ephesians 5:17 | On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is. | Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. | Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. |
Ephesians 5:18 | Do not over-indulge in wine a thing in which excess is so easy | And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; | And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; |
Ephesians 5:19 | but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise in your hearts to the Lord. | Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; | Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, |
Ephesians 5:20 | Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; | Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; | Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; |
Ephesians 5:21 | and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. | Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. | Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. |
Ephesians 5:22 | Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord; | Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. | Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. |
Ephesians 5:23 | because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body. | For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. | For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the Savior of the body. |
Ephesians 5:24 | And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands. | Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. | Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands in every thing. |
Ephesians 5:25 | Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her; | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; |
Ephesians 5:26 | in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word, | That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, | That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, |
Ephesians 5:27 | that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished. | That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. | That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. |
Ephesians 5:28 | So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself. | So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. | So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. |
Ephesians 5:29 | For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church; | For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: | For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: |
Ephesians 5:30 | because we are, as it were, parts of His Body. | For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. | For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. |
Ephesians 5:31 | "For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one." | For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. | For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. |
Ephesians 5:32 | That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church. | This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. | This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. |
Ephesians 5:33 | Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect. | Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. | Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife see that she reverence her husband. |
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