{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "ephesians", "chapter": 5 }, "data": { "n": 5, "bookSlug": "ephesians", "bookCode": "EPH", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "EPH-5:1", "verseRef": "EPH.5.1", "text": "Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "EPH-5:2", "verseRef": "EPH.5.2", "text": "and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "EPH-5:3", "verseRef": "EPH.5.3", "text": "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "EPH-5:4", "verseRef": "EPH.5.4", "text": "nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "EPH-5:5", "verseRef": "EPH.5.5", "text": "For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "EPH-5:6", "verseRef": "EPH.5.6", "text": "Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "EPH-5:7", "verseRef": "EPH.5.7", "text": "Be not ye therefore partakers with them;" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "EPH-5:8", "verseRef": "EPH.5.8", "text": "For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light" },{ "n": 9, "refId": "EPH-5:9", "verseRef": "EPH.5.9", "text": "(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth)," },{ "n": 10, "refId": "EPH-5:10", "verseRef": "EPH.5.10", "text": "proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "EPH-5:11", "verseRef": "EPH.5.11", "text": "and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "EPH-5:12", "verseRef": "EPH.5.12", "text": "for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "EPH-5:13", "verseRef": "EPH.5.13", "text": "But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "EPH-5:14", "verseRef": "EPH.5.14", "text": "Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "EPH-5:15", "verseRef": "EPH.5.15", "text": "Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "EPH-5:16", "verseRef": "EPH.5.16", "text": "redeeming the time, because the days are evil." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "EPH-5:17", "verseRef": "EPH.5.17", "text": "Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "EPH-5:18", "verseRef": "EPH.5.18", "text": "And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "EPH-5:19", "verseRef": "EPH.5.19", "text": "speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "EPH-5:20", "verseRef": "EPH.5.20", "text": "giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "EPH-5:21", "verseRef": "EPH.5.21", "text": "subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "EPH-5:22", "verseRef": "EPH.5.22", "text": "Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "EPH-5:23", "verseRef": "EPH.5.23", "text": "For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "EPH-5:24", "verseRef": "EPH.5.24", "text": "But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "EPH-5:25", "verseRef": "EPH.5.25", "text": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "EPH-5:26", "verseRef": "EPH.5.26", "text": "that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word," },{ "n": 27, "refId": "EPH-5:27", "verseRef": "EPH.5.27", "text": "that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "EPH-5:28", "verseRef": "EPH.5.28", "text": "Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "EPH-5:29", "verseRef": "EPH.5.29", "text": "for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;" },{ "n": 30, "refId": "EPH-5:30", "verseRef": "EPH.5.30", "text": "because we are members of his body." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "EPH-5:31", "verseRef": "EPH.5.31", "text": "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "EPH-5:32", "verseRef": "EPH.5.32", "text": "This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "EPH-5:33", "verseRef": "EPH.5.33", "text": "Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/ephesians/chapters/5", "book": "/v1/library/books/ephesians/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/ephesians/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }