Ephesians 5 - Plain English Version(PEV)

You are God’s kids, so you have to live the right way

1You are God’s kids, and he loves you, so try to be like God. He is good all the time.

2Always love other people, just like Jesus Christ loves us. He loved us so much that he took our payback, and he died instead of us. You know how people used to kill animals and burn them, to give them to God, for the good smell to make him happy.

32Those words tell us important things, and they are a picture of something else too. They show us how Jesus Christ and his church are joined together, like one.

33So I say this to you married people. Every one of you husbands has to love your own wife as much as you love yourself. And every wife has to respect her husband.