---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Ephesians from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 5
verse_count: 33
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Ephesians, chap. 5, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Ephesians 5

*Exhortation to love, and to avoid divers sin and foolish speeches Fruits of the Spirit The husband the head of the wife— Christ the head of the, church.*

**1** Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
**2** And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
**3** But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
**4** Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks.
**5** For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor. unclean person, nor covetous man. who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
**6** Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
**7** Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
**8** For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye 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 acceptable unto the Lord.
**11** And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
**12** For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
**13** But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light; for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
**14** Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
**15** See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
**16** Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
**17** Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what is the will of the Lord. EPHESIANS.
**18** And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
**19** Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
**20** Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
**21** Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
**22** Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
**23** 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.
**24** Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
**25** Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and ga-ve himself for it;
**26** That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
**27** 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.
**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 the church;
**30** For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
**31** For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
**32** This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
**33** Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.