5:1 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
5:2 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
5:3 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.
5:4 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
5:5 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
5:6 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.
5:7 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
5:8 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
5:9 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
5:10 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
5:11 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
5:12 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
5:13 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
5:14 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
5:15 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
5:16 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
5:17 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
5:18 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
5:19 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
5:20 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
5:21 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
5:22 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
5:23 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
5:24 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.
5:25 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
5:26 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:27 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:28 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.
5:29 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:30 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
5:31 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:32 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.
5:33 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.