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Text -- Ephesians 5:16-33 (NET)
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5:16 taking advantage of every opportunity , because the days are evil .
5:17 For this reason do not be foolish , but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is.
5:18 And do not get drunk with wine , which is debauchery , but be filled by the Spirit ,
5:19 speaking to one another in psalms , hymns , and spiritual songs , singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord ,
5:20 always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ,
5:21 and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ .
Exhortations to Households
5:22 Wives , submit to your husbands as to the Lord ,
5:23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body .
5:24 But as the church submits to Christ , so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything .
5:25 Husbands , love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
5:26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word ,
5:27 so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle , or any such blemish , but holy and blameless .
5:28 In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies . He who loves his wife loves himself .
5:29 For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it , just as Christ also does the church ,
5:30 for we are members of his body .
5:31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife , and the two will become one flesh .
5:32 This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church .
5:33 Nevertheless , each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself , and the wife must respect her husband .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Wife |
Church |
Marriage |
Ephesians, Epistle to |
Husband |
SONG OF SONGS |
ESSENES |
PURITY |
Jesus, The Christ |
PAULINE THEOLOGY |
CHURCH GOVERNMENT |
Commandments |
Sanctification |
Blemish |
SACRIFICE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 1 |
EPHESIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
LOVE |
Fellowship |
Family |
Solomon, Song of |
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NET Notes: Eph 5:17 ‡ The best witnesses read the imperative here (so Ì46 א A B P 0278 33 81 1739 pc). The participle is found primarily in the Western a...
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NET Notes: Eph 5:18 Many have taken ἐν πνεύματι (en pneumati) as indicating content, i.e., one is to be filled with the...
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NET Notes: Eph 5:21 Eph 5:19-21. In Eph 5:18 the author gives the command to be filled by means of the Holy Spirit. In 5:19-21 there follows five participles: (1) speakin...
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NET Notes: Eph 5:22 The witnesses for the shorter reading (in which the verb “submit” is only implied) are minimal (Ì46 B Cl Hiermss), but significant an...
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NET Notes: Eph 5:26 The direct object “her” is implied, but not found in the Greek text. It has been supplied in the English translation to clarify the sense ...
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NET Notes: Eph 5:30 Most Western witnesses, as well as the majority of Byzantine mss and a few others (א2 D F G Ψ 0278 0285vid Ï lat), add the following w...
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NET Notes: Eph 5:32 The term “actually” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied in the English translation to bring out the heightened sense of the statemen...
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