Ephesians 5

Which worship songs are based on Ephesians 5?

  1. Full Surrender — Lakewood Music & Alexander Pappas (2025) Ephesians 5:2

    The description of sacrifice and offering producing a pleasing fragrance closely reflects Paul’s language about Christ’s self-giving sacrifice to God, now applied to the worshiper’s surrender.

  2. Exposed — Bryson Gray (2021) Ephesians 5:11

    The introduction explicitly invokes Paul's instruction to avoid participation in deeds of darkness and instead bring them to light.

  3. Serve Christ — Bryson Gray (2020) Ephesians 5:11

    The song explicitly cites this verse to justify confronting conduct it regards as spiritually compromised. Its surrounding argument applies Paul's command to reject and expose works of darkness.

  4. Awaken — 11th Hour (2021) Ephesians 5:14

    The bridge directly adopts the early Christian summons addressed to a sleeper, commanding awakening and resurrection from among the dead.

  5. Square One — Chris Renzema (2024) Ephesians 5:14

    The appeal for the sleeper to awaken closely echoes Paul's summons to spiritual awakening. The surrounding emphasis on illumination further reinforces the connection to this verse.

  6. Faith For It - Live — Jesus Culture (2023) Ephesians 5:14

    The summons for a sleeper to awaken and rise from death closely follows Paul’s exhortation concerning spiritual awakening and Christ’s light.

  7. Sleeper — Josh Garrels (2020) Ephesians 5:14

    The opening call closely follows Paul's sequence of awakening from sleep, rising from death, and receiving Christ's light. The song adapts that summons into a proclamation of divine resurrection.

  8. Lo Que Veo (What I See) — Elevation Worship, Elevation Español (2022) Ephesians 5:14

    The chorus closely echoes Paul's summons for the sleeper to awaken and rise from death in response to Christ's life and light.

  9. Vi La Luz — Hillsong Worship, Hillsong en Español, David Ware (2020) Ephesians 5:14

    The combined imagery of being dead, awakening, and encountering light closely follows Paul’s summons to awake from spiritual death and receive Christ’s light.

  10. SETTLE — bodie (2025) Ephesians 5:14

    The combined imagery of being awakened from spiritual sleep and raised from a fallen position closely reflects Paul's call for the sleeper to awaken and rise into Christ's light.

  11. Let The Light In — Cody Carnes (2020) Ephesians 5:14

    The opening summons a sleeper to awaken, the dead to rise, and divine light to shine, closely reproducing the distinctive sequence of Paul's awakening exhortation.

  12. Highest Praise - Live — Kingdom Culture Worship & Brett Shaw & Emma Munns (2024) Ephesians 5:14

    The bridge's command for a sleeper to awaken and open their eyes closely echoes Paul's summons to spiritual awakening, though the song adapts its concluding language.

  13. Plugin Again (Intro) — Sam Purpose (2023) Ephesians 5:15-16

    The description of wisely using time in an age characterized by darkness closely echoes Paul’s instruction to live carefully and make the most of the time because the days are evil.

  14. Eu Vou Orar - Ao Vivo — Nair Nany (2025) Ephesians 5:18

    The song directly reproduces Paul’s contrast between intoxication with wine and being filled with the Holy Spirit.

  15. Feminine Not Feminist — Bryson Gray (2023) Ephesians 5:22-25

    Its language about marital submission, the husband's headship, becoming one flesh, and a husband's Christlike love for his wife closely follows Paul's teaching on marriage in Ephesians 5.

  16. Thank GOD You Ain't GOD — Marty & Brenno (2025) Ephesians 5:23-32

    The song identifies the church as Christ's bride and body, closely matching Paul's linked images of Christ as the church's husband, head, and savior. This supports the claim that corrupt leaders do not determine the church's ultimate worth.

  17. The Church — Bethel Music (2025) Ephesians 5:25-27

    The Church is portrayed as Christ’s bride, purified and presented to him without blemish, directly invoking Paul’s description of Christ sanctifying the Church.

  18. The Church - Acoustic — Bethel Music, Jenn Johnson (2025) Ephesians 5:27

    The imagery of the Church as a 'spotless bride' reflects the biblical metaphor found in Ephesians, emphasizing the purity and unity that the Church is called to embody.

Ephesians 5 (King James Version)

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 sweetsmelling 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 sometimes 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 the will of the Lord is.

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 gave 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.