Efésios 5

¹ Be ye folowers of god as dere children

² and walke in love even as Christ loved vs and gave him silfe for vs an offerynge and a sacrifyce of a swete saver to god.

³ So that fornicacion and all vnclennes or coveteousnes be not once named amonge you as it be commeth saynctes:

⁴ nether filthynes nether folishe talkyng nether gestinge which are not comly: but rather gevynge of thankes

⁵ For this ye knowe yt no whormonger other vnclene person or coveteous person which is the worshipper of ymages hath eny inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christ and of God.

⁶ Let no ma deceave you with vayne wordes. For thorow soche thinges cometh the wrath of God vpon the chyldre of vnbelefe.

⁷ Be not therfore companions with them.

⁸ Ye were once dercknes but are now light in the Lorde. Walke as chyldren of light.

⁹ For the frute of the sprete is in all goodnes rightewesnes and trueth.

¹⁰ Accept that which is pleasinge to the Lorde:

¹¹ and have no fellishippe with the vnfrutfull workes of dercknes: but rather rebuke them.

¹² For it is shame even to name those thinges which are done of them in secrete:

¹³ but all thinges when they are rebuked of the light are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest that same is light.

¹⁴ Wherfore he sayth: awake thou that slepest and stond vp from deeth and Christ shall geve the light.

¹⁵ Take hede therfore that ye walke circuspectly: not as foles: but as wyse

¹⁶ redemynge the tyme: for ye dayes are evyll.

¹⁷ Wherfore be ye not vnwyse but vnderstonde what the will of the Lorde is

¹⁸ and be not dronke with wyne wherin is excesse: but be fulfilled with the sprete

¹⁹ speakynge vnto youre selves in psalmes and ymnes and spretuall songes synginge and makinge melodie to ye Lorde in youre hertes

²⁰ gevinge thankes all wayes for all thinges vnto God the father in the name of oure Lorde Iesu Christ:

²¹ submittinge youre selves one to another in the feare of God.

²² Wemen submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as vnto the Lorde.

²³ For the husbande is the wyves heed even as Christ is the heed of the congregacion and the same is the saveoure of the body.

²⁴ Therfore as the cogregacion is in subieccion to Christ lykwyse let the wyves be in subieccion to their husbandes in all thinges.

²⁵ Husbandes love youre wyves even as Christ loved the congregacion and gave him silfe for it

²⁶ to sanctifie it and clensed it in the fountayne of water thorow the worde

²⁷ to make it vnto him selfe a glorious congregacion with oute spot or wrynckle or eny soche thinge: but that it shuld be holy and with out blame.

²⁸ So ought men to love their wyves as their awne bodyes. He that loveth his wyfe loveth him sylfe.

²⁹ For no ma ever yet hated his awne flesshe: but norissheth and cherisseth it even as the lorde doth the congregacion.

³⁰ For we are members of his body of his flesshe and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cotinue with his wyfe and two shalbe made one flesshe.

³² This is a great secrete but I speake bitwene Christ and the cogregacion.

³³ Neverthelesse do ye so that every one of you love his wyfe truely even as him silfe. And let ye wyfe se that she feare her husbade.