{"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/ylt/ephesians/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:58:41.600Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Ephesians","bookSlug":"ephesians","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, — the things not fit — but rather thanksgiving;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"become not, then, partakers with them,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"redeeming the time, because the days are evil;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"because of this become not fools, but — understanding what is the will of the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in 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, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife — himself he doth love;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord — the assembly,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"because members we are 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 shall be — the two — for one flesh;'"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"but ye also, every one in particular — let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife — that she may reverence the husband."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ephesians 5 (YLT)","markdown":"[Ephesians 5](https://primebible.com/ylt/ephesians/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/ephesians/5 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}