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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 5
Saints exhorted to avoid uncleanness and walk uprightly—Husbands
and wives whould love each other.
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1 BE ye therefore
afollowers of God, as dear children;
2 And awalk in love, as
Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an
boffering and a csacrifice to God for a
sweetsmelling dsavour.
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3 But afornication, and all
uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh
bsaints;
4 Neither afilthiness, nor
bfoolish ctalking, nor jesting, which are
not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
5 For this ye know, that no
awhoremonger, nor bunclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any cinheritance in
the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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6 Let no man adeceive you
with vain words: for because of these things cometh the
bwrath of God upon the children of
cdisobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
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8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now
are ye light in the Lord: walk as achildren of
blight:
9 (For the fruit of the
Spirita is in all
agoodness and righteousness and truth;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
11 And have no afellowship
with the unfruitful works of bdarkness, but rather
creprove them.
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9a the fruit of the Spirit
The fruit of the Spirit is to produce children of light. That is with the
gift of the Holy Ghost one may be enlightened in all things pertaining unto
God and the ways thereof. From the gate of baptism man may be so led by that
Spirit, the Holy Ghost, in all things and in all ways in that strait and
narrow way which bring man into the Kingdom of God and in Unity therewith.
So being such children of light we may become even as God our Father is.
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12 For it is a ashame even
to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that
sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee
alight.
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15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be ye not
aunwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord
is.
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18 And be not adrunk with
wine, wherein is bexcess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and
ahymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
bmelody in your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving athanks always for
all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 aSubmitting yourselves
one to another in the fear of God.
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22 aWives,
bsubmit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
Lord.
23 For the ahusband is the
head of the wife, even as Christ is the bhead of the
cchurch: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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25 aHusbands,
blove your cwives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might asanctify
and bcleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their
own bodies. He that loveth his awife loveth himself.
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29 For no man ever yet
ahated his own bflesh; but nourisheth and
cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are amembers of
his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father
and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be
aone flesh.
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32 This is a great
amystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in
particular so love his wife even as himself; and the awife
see that she breverence her husband.
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