Ephesians · World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Ephesians 5 World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
1 SED, pues, imitadores de Dios como hijos amados:
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.
2 Y andad en amor, como también Cristo nos amó, y se entregó á sí mismo por nosotros, ofrenda y sacrificio á Dios en olor suave.
3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
3 Pero fornicación y toda inmundicia, ó avaricia, ni aun se nombre entre vosotros, como conviene á santos;
4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
4 Ni palabras torpes, ni necedades, ni truhanerías, que no convienen; sino antes bien acciones de gracias.
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.
5 Porque sabéis esto, que ningún fornicario, ó inmundo, ó avaro, que es servidor de ídolos, tiene herencia en el reino de Cristo y de Dios.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
6 Nadie os engañe con palabras vanas; porque por estas cosas viene la ira de Dios sobre los hijos de desobediencia.
7 Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
7 No seáis pues aparceros con ellos;
8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
8 Porque en otro tiempo erais tinieblas; mas ahora sois luz en el Señor: andad como hijos de luz,
9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
9 (Porque el fruto del Espíritu es en toda bondad, y justicia, y verdad;)
10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
10 Aprobando lo que es agradable al Señor.
11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
11 Y no comuniquéis con las obras infructuosas de las tinieblas; sino antes bien redargüidlas.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
12 Porque torpe cosa es aun hablar de lo que ellos hacen en oculto.
13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
13 Mas todas las cosas cuando son redargüidas, son manifestadas por la luz; porque lo que manifiesta todo, la luz es.
14 Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
14 Por lo cual dice: Despiértate, tú que duermes, y levántate de los muertos, y te alumbrará Cristo.
15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
15 Mirad, pues, cómo andéis avisadamente; no como necios, mas como sabios;
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
16 Redimiendo el tiempo, porque los días son malos.
17 Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
17 Por tanto, no seáis imprudentes, sino entendidos de cuál sea la voluntad del Señor.
18 Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
18 Y no os embriaguéis de vino, en lo cual hay disolución; mas sed llenos de Espíritu;
19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
19 Hablando entre vosotros con salmos, y con himnos, y canciones espirituales, cantando y alabando al Señor en vuestros corazones;
20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
20 Dando gracias siempre de todo al Dios y Padre en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo:
21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
21 Sujetados los unos á los otros en el temor de Dios.
22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
22 Las casadas estén sujetas á sus propios maridos, como al Señor.
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.
23 Porque el marido es cabeza de la mujer, así como Cristo es cabeza de la iglesia; y él es el que da la salud al cuerpo.
24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
24 Así que, como la iglesia está sujeta á Cristo, así también las casadas [lo estén] á sus maridos en todo.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
25 Maridos, amad á vuestras mujeres, así como Cristo amó á la iglesia, y se entregó á sí mismo por ella,
26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
26 Para santificarla limpiándola en el lavacro del agua por la palabra,
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.
27 Para presentársela gloriosa para sí, una iglesia que no tuviese mancha ni arruga, ni cosa semejante; sino que fuese santa y sin mancha.
28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
28 Así también los maridos deben amar á sus mujeres como á sus mismos cuerpos. El que ama á su mujer, á sí mismo se ama.
29 For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,
29 Porque ninguno aborreció jamás á su propia carne, antes la sustenta y regala, como también Cristo á la iglesia;
30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
30 Porque somos miembros de su cuerpo, de su carne y de sus huesos.
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.”
31 Por esto dejará el hombre á su padre y á su madre, y se allegará á su mujer, y serán dos en una carne.
32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly.
32 Este misterio grande es: mas yo digo [esto] con respecto á Cristo y á la iglesia.
33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
33 Cada uno empero de vosotros de por sí, ame también á su mujer como á sí mismo; y la mujer reverencie á su marido.
Cross references (33)
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- 1 1 John 4:11; 1 Peter 1:15–16; Ephesians 4:32; Matthew 5:48; Luke 6:35–36
- 2 John 13:34; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 2:15; Matthew 20:28
- 3 Colossians 3:5; Ephesians 5:5; Galatians 5:19–21; 1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:3
- 4 Colossians 3:8; Ephesians 4:29; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; Proverbs 15:2; James 3:4–8
- 5 Galatians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; Colossians 3:5; Revelation 22:15; Ephesians 5:3
- 6 Romans 1:18; Colossians 2:8; Matthew 24:4; 1 John 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
- 7 Revelation 18:4; 1 Timothy 5:22; Ephesians 5:11; Numbers 16:26; Proverbs 1:10–17
- 8 John 8:12; 1 John 1:7; John 12:46; Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:13
- 9 Galatians 5:22–23; 3 John 11; 1 John 3:9–10; Romans 15:14; Ephesians 6:14
- 10 Romans 12:1–2; Psalm 19:14; Hebrews 12:28; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:20
- 11 Romans 13:12; 1 Timothy 5:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 John 10–11; Romans 16:17
- 12 Ephesians 5:3; Romans 2:16; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Jeremiah 23:24; 2 Samuel 12:12
- 13 John 3:20–21; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Hosea 2:10; Hosea 7:1; Micah 7:9
- 14 Isaiah 60:1; Romans 13:11–12; Isaiah 26:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Isaiah 52:1
- 15 Colossians 4:5; James 3:13; Philippians 1:27; 1 Corinthians 14:20; Proverbs 14:8
- 16 Colossians 4:5; Amos 5:13; John 12:35; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ephesians 6:13
- 17 Romans 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; Colossians 1:9; Ephesians 5:15; Jeremiah 4:22
- 18 Luke 1:15; Romans 13:13; Proverbs 20:1; Galatians 5:21–25; Acts 11:24
- 19 Colossians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Psalm 95:2; Acts 16:25; Psalm 147:7
- 20 Colossians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; Hebrews 13:15; Philippians 4:6; Ephesians 5:4
- 21 Philippians 2:3; Ephesians 5:24; Ephesians 5:22; Hebrews 13:17; 1 Peter 5:5
- 22 Colossians 3:18–4:1; 1 Peter 3:1–6; Titus 2:5; Genesis 3:16; Esther 1:20
- 23 1 Corinthians 11:3–10; Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22–23; Ephesians 5:25–26; Ephesians 4:15
- 24 Ephesians 5:33; Titus 2:7; Colossians 3:20; Titus 2:9; Colossians 3:22
- 25 1 Peter 3:7; Colossians 3:19; Ephesians 5:28; Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:33
- 26 Hebrews 10:22; John 15:3; Ezekiel 36:25; John 3:5; John 17:17–19
- 27 Colossians 1:22; Hebrews 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:4
- 28 Ephesians 5:25; Matthew 19:5; Genesis 2:21–24; Ephesians 5:33; Ephesians 5:31
- 29 Ephesians 5:31; Ezekiel 34:14–15; Proverbs 11:17; John 6:50–58; Ecclesiastes 4:5
- 30 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 12:12–27; Romans 12:5; Genesis 2:23; Ephesians 1:23
- 31 Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7–8; 1 Corinthians 6:16
- 32 Revelation 21:2; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Isaiah 54:5; Revelation 19:7–8; Colossians 2:2
- 33 1 Peter 3:2–7; Esther 1:20; Ephesians 5:25; Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 5:28–29
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
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