MODERN LITERAL VERSION

5:1 Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,
5:2 and walk in love*, just-as Christ also loved* us and gave himself up on our behalf as an offering and a sacrifice to God *for an aroma of a sweet-fragrance.

5:3 But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or greed be even named among you*, as is suitable to holy-ones;
5:4 nor obscenity, nor foolish talk or petty jesting, which are not proper, but rather the giving of thanks.
5:5 For* this you* know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
5:6 Let no one deceive you* with empty words; for* because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.
5:7 Therefore do not become joint partakers with them.
5:8 For* you* were previously in darkness, but now you* are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
5:9 (for* the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
5:10 testing what is well pleasing to the Lord.
5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but also rather reprove them;
5:12 for* it is shameful even to speak of the things happening by them covertly.
5:13 But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light; for* everything that is made manifest is light.
5:14 Hence he says, Arise, you who are sleeping and rise* up from the dead and Christ will appear upon you. {Is. 60:1? Maybe an early hymn?}

5:15 Therefore beware how accurately you* are walking, not as unwise, but as wise;
5:16 buying up the time, because the days are evil.
5:17 Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
5:18 And do not be drunken with wine, in which there is riotousness, but be filled with the Spirit;
5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing-praise in your* heart to the Lord;
5:20 giving-thanks always over all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
5:21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

5:22 Wives be subject to your* own husbands, as to the Lord.
5:23 Because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is also the head of the {F} congregation*, he is the savior of the body.
5:24 But as the congregation* is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be subject to their own husbands in everything.

5:25 Husbands, love* your* wives, just-as Christ also loved* the congregation* and gave himself up on her behalf;
5:26 in order that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her in the bath of water in the word,
5:27 that* he might present the congregation* to himself a glorious congregation *, not having stain or wrinkle or any such thing, but that* she should be holy and unblemished.
5:28 So husbands also ought to love* their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves* his own wife loves* himself.
5:29 For* no one ever hated his own flesh, but is nourishing and cherishing it, just-as the Lord also does the {F} congregation*;
5:30 because we are members of his body, out of his flesh and out of his bones.
5:31 Because of this, a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
5:32 This mystery is great, but I am speaking in regard to Christ and the {F} congregation*.
5:33 However let each one of you* accordingly love* his own wife like himself, and let the wife see that* she should fear her husband.
{Eph 5:23 & 5:29 & 5:32 Or: church/the one true church, Eph 4:1-6; discussed more in the Appendix.}