5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. 2 And •walk in love, as the •Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3† But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of A among you, as is proper for •saints. 4 Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 5† For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things. B 7 Therefore, do not become their partners. 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light — 9 for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth — 10 discerning what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. 13 Everything exposed by the light is made clear, 14 for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:
15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk — not as unwise people but as wise — 16 making the most of the time, C because the days are evil. 17 So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. 18 And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:
TWISTED SCRIPTURE
Ephesians 5:19
Though not a matter of heresy, non-instrumental Churches of Christ, who teach that Christians should not use musical instruments in worship, have a difficult time with this verse. Most NT commentaries define "psalms" as songs accompanied by musical instruments. Se Ps 150 on the relationship between worship and instruments."
22† Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, 23 for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing D her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of His body.
32 This •mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.