Efésios 5

Noho Ora i roto i te Māramatanga

1 Nā, kia rite tā koutou ki tā te Atua, kia pērā me tā ngā tamariki e arohaina ana; 2 haere hoki i runga i te aroha, kia pērā me te Karaiti i aroha ki a tātou, i tuku i a ia anō mō tātou hei whakahere, hei patunga tapu ki te Atua, hei kakara pai.

3 Ko te moepuku ia, me ngā mahi poke katoa, me te apo, kaua ēnā e whakahuatia i roto i a koutou, kia rite ki tā te hunga tapu tikanga. 4 Kaua hoki te mea paru­paru, te kōrero wai­rangi, te kōrero māminga, kāhore nei i tika, erangi ia te whaka­whetai. 5 E tino mātau ana hoki koutou ki tēnei, e kore tētahi tangata moe­puku, poke rānei, apo rānei, he kai­karakia nei hoki ia ki te whaka­pakoko, e whai wāhi ki te ranga­tira­tanga o te Karaiti, ā, o te Atua.

6 Kei tini­hanga­tia koutou e te tangata ki ngā kupu teka­teka noa; nā ēnei mea hoki te riri o te Atua e puta nei ki ngā tama­riki a te tutū. 7 Nā, kaua koutou e uru ki tā rātou. 8 He pōuri hoki koutou i mua, tēnā ko tēnei, he mārama i roto i te Ariki. Kia rite tā koutou haere ki tā ngā tamariki o te mārama – 9 kei runga hoki te hua o te mārama i te pai katoa, i te tika, i te pono. 10 Me whakamātau anō e koutou tā te Ariki e pai ai. 11 Kei uru koutou ki ngā mahi huakore o te pōuri, engari whakahēngia. 12 He mea whakamā hoki te whakahua kau i ngā mea e meinga ngarotia nei e rātou. 13 Ko ngā mea katoa hoki e whakahēngia ana, mā te mārama e whakakite; he mārama hoki ngā mea katoa e whakakitea ana. 14 Koia hoki tāna kupu nei:

"Maranga, e tēnei e moe nei,

ara ake i roto i te hunga mate,

ā, ka whiti a te Karaiti ki runga ki a koe."

15 Nā reira, kia āta tirotiro i tā koutou haere, kei rite ki tā ngā whakaarokore, engari ki tā ngā whakaaro nui; 16 hokona te tāima mā koutou, he kino hoki ngā rā. 17 Mō konei rā kei whakaarokore koutou, engari kia mātau ki tā te Ariki e pai ai. 18 Kaua hoki e haurangi i te wāina, he tōreretanga hoki tēnā ki te hē; engari kia kī i te Wairua; 19 ko tā koutou kōrero ki a koutou anō, hei te waiata tapu, hei te hīmene, hei te waiata wairua; waiata, hīmene atu, i roto i ō koutou ngākau ki te Ariki; 20 me te whakawhetai ki te Atua, arā ki te Matua i ngā wā katoa, mō ngā mea katoa, i runga i te ingoa o tō tātou Ariki, o Īhu Karaiti.

Ngā Wāhine me ngā Tāne

21 Kia ngohengohe tētahi ki tētahi i runga i te wehi ki a te Karaiti.

22 E ngā wāhine, kia ngohengohe ki ā koutou tāne ake, hei mea ki te Ariki. 23 Nō te mea ko te tāne te upoko o te wahine, e rite ana hoki ki a te Karaiti, ko te upoko ia o te hāhi; ko te kaiwhakaora anō ia o te tinana. 24 Otiia, e ngohengohe ana te hāhi ki tā te Karaiti, kia pērā anō ngā wāhine ki ā rātou tāne i ngā mea katoa.

25 E ngā tāne, arohaina ā koutou wāhine, kia pērā hoki me te Karaiti i aroha nei ki te hāhi, i hoatu hoki i a ia anō mō taua hāhi; 26 hei whakatapunga māna, mā rawa i a ia i te horoinga ki te wai, i runga i te kupu, 27 hei hāhi tāpae māna ki a ia anō, he hāhi korōria rawa, kāhore he ira, kāhore he korukoru, tētahi atu mea pērā rānei, engari kia tapu, kia kohakore. 28 Me aroha e ngā tāne ā rātou wāhine me te mea ko ō rātou tinana ake anō. Ko te tangata e aroha ana ki tāna wahine ake, e aroha ana ki a ia ake anō. 29 Kāhore hoki tētahi kia kino noa ki tōna kikokiko ake; engari e atawhai ana, e whakaahuru ana, e pērā tonu ana me tā te Karaiti ki te hāhi; 30 he wāhi hoki tātou nō tōna tinana. 31 "Mō konei rā ka whakarērea ai e te tangata tōna pāpā me tōna whaea, ā, ka piri ki tāna wahine, ka kikokiko kotahi tō rāua tokorua." 32 He nui tēnei mea ngaro; otiia, mō te Karaiti rāua ko te hāhi tāku kōrero. 33 Engari, kia rite ki tōna aroha ki a ia ake anō tō koutou aroha, tō tēnei, tō tēnei, ki tāna wahine, ki tāna wahine; me te wahine anō, kia hopohopo ia ki tāna tāne.

1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them; 8 for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them; 12 for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. 13 But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

15 Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; 19 speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; 20 giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; 21 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

22 Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: 29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church; 30 because we are members of his body. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. 33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.