5:17. Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will
of God.
5:18. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled
with the Holy Spirit,
5:19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:
5:20. Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, to God and the Father:
5:21. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.
5:22. Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:
5:23. Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the
head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.
5:24. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the
wives be to their husbands in all things.
As the church is subject to Christ. . .The church then, according to St.
Paul, is ever obedient to Christ, and can never fall from him, but
remain faithful to him, unspotted and unchanged to the end of the
world.
5:25. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and
delivered himself up for it:
5:26. That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in
the word of life:
5:27. 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.
5:28. So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He
that loveth his wife loveth himself.
5:29. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and
cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:
5:30. Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his
bones.
5:31. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall
cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.
5:32. This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the
church.
5:33. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his
wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.
Ephesians Chapter 6
Duties of children and servants. The Christian's armour.
6:1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.
6:2. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment
with a promise:
6:3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon
earth.
6:4. And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring
them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.
6:5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to
Christ.
6:6. Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
6:7. With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.
6:8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same
shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
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