Efésios 5

1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 Therefore don’t be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, 10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light. 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; 21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect. 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly, 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. 31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh."✝5:31 Genesis 2:24 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly. 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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.