Douay Rheims Original ↷
Ephesians 5 📜 📕 ↷
Imitators of God
1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:📜💬📚
2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and delivered himself for us an oblation and host to God in an odour of sweetness.📜💬📚
3 But fornication and all uncleanness, or avarice let it not so much as be named among you as it becometh Saints:📜💬📚
4 or filthiness, or foolish talk, or scurrility, being to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.📜💬📚
5 For understanding, know you this, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is the service of idols) hath inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.📜💬📚
6 Let no man seduce you with vain words. For, for these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of diffidence.📜💬📚
7 Become not therefore partakers with them.📜💬📚
Children of Light
8 For you were sometime darkness, but now light in our Lord. Walk as children of the light,📜💬📚
9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and justice, and verity)📜💬📚
10 proving what is well pleasing to God:📜💬📚
11 and communicate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.📜💬📚
12 For the things that are done of them in secret, it is shame even to speak.📜💬📚
13 But all things that are reproved, are manifested by the light. For all that is manifested, is light.📜💬📚
14 For the which cause he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ will illuminate thee.📜💬📚
15 See therefore, brethren, how you walk warily. Not as unwise, but as wise:📜💬📚
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.📜💬📚
17 Therefore become not unwise, but understanding what is the will of God.📜💬📚
18 And be not drunk with wine wherein is riotousness, but be filled with the Spirit,📜💬📚
19 speaking to your selves in Psalms & hymns, and spiritual canticles, chanting and singing in your hearts to our Lord:📜💬📚
20 giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord JESUS Christ to God and the Father.📜💬📚
Wives and Husbands
21 Subject one to another in the fear of Christ.📜💬📚
22 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to our Lord:📜💬📚
23 because the man is the head of the woman: as Christ is the head of the CHURCH. Himself, the Saviour of his body.📜💬📚
24 But as the CHURCH is subject to Christ, so also the women to their husbands in all things.📜💬📚
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the CHURCH, and delivered himself for it:📜💬📚
26 that he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word,📜💬📚
27 that he might present to himself a glorious CHURCH, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and unspotted.📜💬📚
28 So also men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.📜💬📚
29 For no man ever hated his own flesh: but he nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ the CHURCH:📜💬📚
30 because we be the members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.📜💬📚
31 For this cause shall man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.📜💬📚
32 This is a great Sacrament. But I speak in Christ & in the CHURCH.📜💬📚
33 Nevertheless you also every one, let each love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.📜💬📚
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