Eph.5.8

You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it!

Eph.5.8

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

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

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For though your hearts were once full of darkness, now you are full of light from the Lord, and your behavior should show it!

Eph.5.9

The good, the right, the true--these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours.

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(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

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

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For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.

Eph.5.10

Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.

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and find out what pleases the Lord.

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finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

Eph.5.10

Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.

Eph.5.11

Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are.

Eph.5.11

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

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Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, rebuke and expose them.

Eph.5.12

It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see.

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

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For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

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It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.

Eph.5.13

Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.

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But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

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But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

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But when the light shines on them, it becomes clear how evil these things are.

Eph.5.14

Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!

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for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."

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And where your light shines, it will expose their evil deeds. This is why it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light."

Eph.5.15

So watch your step. Use your head.

Eph.5.15

Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise,

Eph.5.15

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

Eph.5.15

So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise.

Eph.5.16

Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times!

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making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

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redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Eph.5.16

Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days.

Eph.5.17

Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants.

Eph.5.17

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

Eph.5.17

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Eph.5.17

Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.

Eph.5.18

Don't drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him.

Eph.5.18

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

Eph.5.18

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

Eph.5.18

Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you.

Eph.5.19

Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ.

Eph.5.19

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

Eph.5.19

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

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Then you will sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, making music to the Lord in your hearts.

Eph.5.20

Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ.

Eph.5.20

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

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

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And you will always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph.5.21

Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another.

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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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submitting to one another in the fear of God.

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And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Eph.5.22

Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ.

Eph.5.22

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Eph.5.22

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

Eph.5.22

You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord.

Eph.5.23

The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing.

Eph.5.23

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

Eph.5.23

For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

Eph.5.23

For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior.

Eph.5.24

So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.

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

Eph.5.24

Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything.

Eph.5.25

Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church--a love marked by giving, not getting.

Eph.5.25

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

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

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And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her

Eph.5.26

Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her,

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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

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that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

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to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word.

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dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness.

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and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

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that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

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He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

Eph.5.28

And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor--since they're already "one" in marriage.

Eph.5.28

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

Eph.5.28

So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

Eph.5.28

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife.

Eph.5.29

No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, the church,

Eph.5.29

After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church--

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For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

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No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church.

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since we are part of his body.

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for we are members of his body.

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For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

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And we are his body.

Eph.5.31

And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become "one flesh."

Eph.5.31

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

Eph.5.31

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

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As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."

Eph.5.32

This is a huge mystery, and I don't pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church.

Eph.5.32

This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church.

Eph.5.32

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Eph.5.32

This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.

Eph.5.33

And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband.

Eph.5.33

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

Eph.5.33

Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Eph.5.33

So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.