OET EPH chapter 5

5 So imitate God like valued children would imitate their father 2 [ref]and immerse yourselves in love just as the messiah loves you all and allowed himself to suffer for us as an offering and sacrifice which is like a pleasant fragrance to God.

3 It’s fitting for dedicated believers to not even entertain thoughts of sexual immorality or impurity or greed. 4 Nor is dirty or foolish talk or crude joking fitting, but rather thankfulness. 5 You should realise that anyone who is sexually immoral or impure or is a covetous or idolatrous person won’t have an inheritance in the kingdom of the messiah and of God.

6 Don’t let anyone seduce you with empty talk, because this is exactly what will induce God’s strong anger on those who’re disobedient. 7 So don’t get caught up with them 8 because you yourselves were once in the darkness but now that you are in the master’s light, you should behave like children of light. 9 The results of this light should be goodness and doing what is right and being honest 10 as you aim to please our master. 11 Don’t join in with the works of darkness which don’t lead to positive results, but instead you all should expose them 12 because the things that unbelievers do in secret are disgraceful to even talk about. 13 But everything will eventually have the light shone on it and all these things will then be exposed. 14 That’s why it says:

You who’re asleep get up,

You who’re dead come back to life,

The messiah will shine his light on you.

15 Because of that, take great care in exactly how you’re living. Don’t live like fools, but like wise people, 16 [ref]making good use of your time, because there’s lot of evil these days. 17 So don’t be foolish, but rather strive to discover what the master wants for you.

18 And don’t get drunk on alcohol because that’s excessive. Instead, be filled with God’s spirit, 19 [ref]sharing scriptures with each other and singing hymns and songs to praise our master, 20 always expressing thanks for everything to our father God in the authority and name of our master, Yeshua the messiah. 21 And show your honour of the messiah by placing yourselves under each other’s authority.

5 Therefore be _becoming imitators of_ the _god as beloved children, 2 and be _walking in love, as also the chosen _one /messiah loved you _all, and gave_ himself _over for us, an_offering and a_sacrifice to_ the _god into an_aroma of_a_sweet _fragrance.
3 But sexual _immorality, and all impurity, or greediness, not it _let _be _being _named among you _all, as is _befitting to _holy ones, 4 and filthiness, and foolish _talk, or crude _joking, which not was _fitting, but rather thanksgiving.
5 For/Because this be _having /_known knowing that any sexually _immoral, or unclean, or coveter, who is an_idolater, is_ not _having inheritance in the kingdom of _the chosen _one /messiah and of_god.
6 Let_ no _one _be _seducing you _all with _empty messages, because/for because _of these things the severe _anger of_ the _god is _coming on the sons of_ the _disbelief.
7 Therefore be_ not _becoming fellow-partakers with _them, 8 for/because once you _all _were darkness, but now light in the_master, be _walking as children of _light 9 (for the the_fruit of _the light is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth), 10 approving what is well _pleasing to _the master.
11 And not be _participating with _the the unfruitful works of_ the _darkness, but rather even be _rebuking them, 12 for the things secretly becoming by them, it _is shameful even to _be _speaking.
13 But all the things being _rebuked by the light is _being _revealed, because/for everything which being _revealed is light.
14 Therefore he _is _saying:
Be _raising, you sleeping, and rise _up from the dead, and the chosen _one /messiah will _be _shining _upon upon _you.
15 Therefore be _watching _out exactly how you _all _are _walking, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Because _of this, not be _becoming foolish, but be _understanding what the will of _the master is.
18 And not be _being _drunk with _wine, in which is intemperance, but be _being _filled with the_spirit, 19 speaking to _themselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and singing _praises in _the heart of _you _all to _the master, 20 giving _thanks always for all things in the_name of _the master of _us, Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) chosen _one /messiah, to_ the _god even the_father, 21 being _subjected to _one _another in reverence of_chosen _one /messiah.

5:22 Married couples

22 [ref]Wives should place themselves under their own husbands, just like they’re under the master, 23 because the husband is the leader of the wife just like the messiah is the head and saviour of his body, the church. 24 Wives should place themselves under their husbands in everything just like the church should place itself under the messiah.

25 [ref]You husbands must love your wives, just like the messiah loved the church and gave himself completely for it, 26 so that he could separate the church from the world and wash it clean with the water of the good message 27 in order to present the splendid church to himself—without any stains or wrinkles or anything like that—just pure and unblemished. 28 So husbands should love their wives just like their own bodies—anyone who loves his wife is loving himself. 29 No one hates their own body, but they feed and look after it, just like the messiah does for the church 30 and we are parts of his body. 31 [ref]That’s the reason why a man leaves his father and mother and becomes joined with his wife and the two of them become one unit. 32 This is an amazing mystery but I’m talking about the messiah and the church. 33 But it applies to you all: each one of you should love your wife like yourself and the wife should respect her husband.

5:2: Exo 29:18; Psa 40:6.

5:16: Col 4:5.

5:19-20: Col 3:16-17.

5:22: Col 3:18; 1Pe 3:1.

5:25: Col 3:19; 1Pe 3:7.

5:31: Gen 2:24.

22 The wives be to _their own husbands as to _the master, 23 because the_husband is head of _the wife, as also the chosen _one /messiah is the_head of _the assembly, he the_saviour of _the body.
24 But as the assembly is _being _subjected to _the chosen _one /messiah, thus also the wives to _their husbands in everything.
25 The Men be _loving your wives, as also the chosen _one /messiah loved the assembly, and gave_ himself _over for her, 26 in _order _that he _may _sanctify her, having _cleansed her by _the washing of_ the _water by the_message, 27 in _order _that he _may _present the assembly he to _himself glorious, not having stain or wrinkle, or anything of _the such, but in _order _that it _may _be holy and blameless.
28 Thus the husbands are _ought also to _be _loving the wives of _themselves, as the bodies of _themselves.
The one loving the wife of _himself, is _loving himself.
29 For/Because no _one once hated the flesh of _himself, but is _nurturing and is _cherishing it, as the chosen _one /messiah also does for _the assembly, 30 because we _are members of _the body of _him.
31 For/Because this a_man will _be _leaving his father and the mother, and will _be _being _joined to _the wife of _him, and the two will _be into one flesh 32 This the mystery is great, but I am _speaking for chosen _one /messiah and for the assembly.
33 However you _all also, which each one _by one, let _him _be _loving the wife of _himself thus as himself, and the wife, in _order _that she _may _be _revering the husband.

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