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Ephesians 5

2 He exhorteth them unto love. 3 Warneth them to beware of uncleanness, covetousness, foolish talking, and false doctrine, 17 To be circumspect. 18 To avoid drunkenness. 19 To rejoice and to be thankful toward God, 21 To submit themselves one to another. 22 He entreateth of corporal marriage and of the spiritual betwixt Christ and his Church.
1.Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children,
2.*And walk in love, even as Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet asmelling savour to God.
3.*But fornication, & all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as it becometh Saints,
4.Neither filthiness, neither foolish talking, neither bjesting, which are things not comely, but rather giving of thanks.
5.For this ye know, that no whoremonger, neither unclean person, nor covetous person, which is can idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.
6.*Let no dman deceive you with vain words: for for such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7.Be not therefore companions with them.
8.For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as echildren of light,
9.(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth)
10.Approving that which is pleasing to the Lord.
11.And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but even freprove them rather.
12.For it is shame even to speak of the things, which are done of them in secret.
13.But all things when they are reproved of the glight, are manifest: for it is light that maketh all things manifest.
14.Wherefore he saith, hAwake thou that sleepest, and stand up from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
15.Take heed therefore that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as *wise,
16.iRedeeming the time: for the kdays are evil.
17.*Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18.And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the Spirit,
19.Speaking unto yourselves in psalms, and ^hymns, and spiritual songs, singing, and making melody to the Lord in your lhearts,
20.Giving thanks always for all things unto God even the Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21.Submitting yourselves one to another in the mfear of God.
22.*Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord.
23.*For the husband is the wive’s head, even as Christ is the head of the Church, and the same is the saviour of his nbody.
24.Therefore as the Church is in subjection to Christ, even so let the wives be to their husbands in everything.
25.*Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it,
26.That he might sanctify it, and cleanse it by the owashing of water through the word,
27.That he might make it unto himself a glorious Church, not having pspot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holie and without blame.
28.So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
29.For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doeth the Church.
30.For we are members of his body, qof his flesh, and of his bones.
31.*For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, & shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shalbe one flesh.
32.This is a great secret, but I speak concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.
33.Therefore every one of you, do ye so: let every one love his wife, even as himself, and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Notes

2-*.
John 13.34, and 15.12, 1 John 3.23
2-a.
Alluding to the perfumes and incensing in the Law.
3-*.
Mar. 7.21, chap. 4.19, Col. 3.5, 2 Thess. 2.17
4-b.
Which is either vain, or else by example and evil speaking may hurt your neighbour: for otherwise there be divers examples in the Scriptures of pleasant talk, which is also godly, as 1 King. 18.27.
5-c.
Because he thinks that his life stands in his riches.
6-*.
Mat. 24.4, Mar. 13.5, Luk. 21.8, 2 Thess. 2.3
6-d.
Either is excusing sin, or in mocking at the menaces, and judgements of God.
8-e.
Seeing God hath adopted you for his, that ye should be holie.
11-f.
And make them known by your honest and godly life.
13-g.
The word of God discovers the vices which were hid before.
14-h.
God thus speaks by his servants to draw the infidels from their blindness.
15-*.
Col. 4.5
16-i.
Selling all worldly pleasures to buy time.
16-k.
In these perilous days and craft of the adversaries, take heed how to buy again the occasions of godliness, which the world hath taken from you.
17-*.
Rom. 12.2, 1 Thess. 4.3
19-^.
Or, songs of praise and thanksgiving.
19-l.
And not only with tongue.
21-m.
Except our friendship be joined, and knit in God, it is not to be esteemed.
22-*.
Col. 3.18, Tit. 2.5, 1 Pet. 3.1
23-*.
1 Cor. 11.3
23-n.
The Church: so the husband ought to nourish, govern and defend his wife from perils.
25-*.
Col. 3.19
26-o.
Baptism is a token that God hath consecrated the Church to himself, and made it holie by his words that is, his promise of free justification, and sanctification in Christ.
27-p.
Because it is covered and clad with Christ’s justice and holiness.
30-q.
This our conjunction with Christ must be considered as Christ is the husband, and we the wife, which are not only joined to him by nature, but also by the communion of substance, through the holie Ghost and by faith: the seal and testimony thereof is the Supper of the Lord.
31-*.
Gen. 2.24, Mat. 19.5, Mar. 10.7, 1 Cor. 6.16