Ephesians 5 Comparison: Berean Study Bible vs Young's Literal Translation

Ephesians 5

¹Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

²and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

³But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

⁴Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

⁵For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

⁷Therefore do not be partakers with them.

⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

⁹for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

¹⁰Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

¹¹Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

¹²For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

¹³But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

¹⁴So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

¹⁵Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

¹⁸Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

¹⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

²⁰always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²²Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

²³For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

²⁶to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

²⁷and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

²⁸In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

³⁰For we are members of His body.

³¹“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

³²This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

³³Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Ephesians 5

¹Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

²and 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,

³and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

⁴also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, the things not fitbut rather thanksgiving;

⁵for 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.

⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

⁷become not, then, partakers with them,

⁸for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

⁹for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

¹⁰proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

¹¹and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

¹²for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

¹³and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;

¹⁴wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

¹⁵See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

¹⁷because of this become not fools, butunderstanding what is the will of the Lord,

¹⁸and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

¹⁹speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

²⁰giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

²¹subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

²²The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

²³because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

²⁴but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

²⁷that 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;

²⁸so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wifehimself he doth love;

²⁹for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lordthe assembly,

³⁰because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

³¹`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall bethe twofor one flesh;'

³²this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

³³but ye also, every one in particularlet each his own wife so love as himself, and the wifethat she may reverence the husband.