{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/ephesians/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T13:26:04.916Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Ephesians","bookSlug":"ephesians","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling smell."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Be not you therefore partakers with them."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Proving what is acceptable to the Lord."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatever does make manifest is light."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Why be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ephesians 5 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Ephesians 5](https://primebible.com/akjv/ephesians/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/ephesians/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}