Bible Lynx Logo

The Book of Ephesians, Chapter 5, Verse 19

View Previous Verses
18
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
King James Version
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
American Standard Version
giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
New English Translation
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
World English Bible
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
21
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
22
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
23
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.
24
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
25
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
26
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.
27
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
28
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
29
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.