Ephesians Chapter 5 (New Translation JWET)

Paul’s Letter to those of Magic City

Chapter 5

¹You must be born in fact God's imitators like beloved children. ² Also you must live by love, just as the Anointed One greeted you with affection and handed Himself over to others (your sacrifice to God a sweet smelling odor), ³but idolatry-fornication and every ceremonial impurity or arrogance (never the name applied to you, when you are clearly seen as the ones devoted to God) ⁴and filthiness and fooleries and lies or a quick wit (those amounting to nothing) but on the other hand exceedingly giving thanks. ⁵ For this you must have seen that every homosexual or foul or greedy one is an idol-worshipper is not having an inheritance in the Anointed One's kingdom, even God's. ⁶No one must outwit you by empty words, for through these things the natural impulse-anger of God was on those sons of the ones refusing compliance.

⁷In all events you must not become joint-accomplices with them. ⁸For at some time or other you were an ignorant one but now an enlightened one by Master-Lord, as children of enlightenment you must live. ⁹For the offspring-fruit of the man with all goodness even justice and truth, ¹⁰one approved after scrutiny as fit, which is acceptable to the Lord. ¹¹And you must not be connected with the unprofitable deeds of the ignorant but even you must also cross-examine exceedingly to refuting, ¹²for the occult things being born of them it is causing shame even to speak. ¹³But every thing being cross-examined (under the influence of man) is being made known, for all things being made known are public. ¹⁴Because of this he is saying, "You must arouse yourself, the one sleeping in death, and you must make to stand up from the dead ones and the Anointed One will shine forth for you." ¹⁵ At all events you must see accurately by any means, you, be not living like unwise one but as wise ones, ¹⁶the opportunity being bought up, in that the days are painful. ¹⁷ Because of this you must not be becoming senseless ones, but you must take notice of the pleasure of the Lord. ¹⁸Also you must not get drunk with fermented juice, this is wastefulness but you must be made full with Spirit, ¹⁹ making music to yourselves by stringed instruments and hymns and odes with blowing wind and plucking with your feelings for the Lord-Master. ²⁰Being thankful at all times, because of everyone in our Lord's name (Savior Anointed One) to God and Father.

²¹Submitting together in terror of Anointed One, ²²the women with their own men thus to the Lord-Master, ²³ that because a man is the source of the woman thus also the Anointed One a Source of the assembly, same one a Savior of the body-group ²⁴but thus the assembly is associated with the Anointed One, in this way even the women with the men in everything. ²⁵(The men must greet with affection the women even as also the Anointed One greeted with affection the assembly, as He surrendered Himself in place of her.) ²⁶Wherever she might be consecrated (purifying with the bath of the water) with a spoken word^Nu6:2. ²⁷There she might be brought forward, of one’s own accord absolutely, to the assembly (honored not having a spot or wrinkle of anything of such) but there she might be a one devoted to God and blameless one. ²⁸In this manner they are obligated (the men) to treat with affection their women like their bodies (the one treating with affection his woman is himself treating with affection. ²⁹For no one at any time his flesh hated, but he is rearing and comforting it as even the Anointed One the assembly, ³⁰in that we are members of His body. ³¹Compared with this, he, a man, will leave behind the father and the mother, and he will cleave to the woman and they will be, the two into one body. ³²This is a great mystery, but I, I am speaking about Anointed One and about the assembly. ³³In addition, even you, the ones each to the one (your woman) in this way he must treat with affection as himself, but the woman that she may be respected of the man.