What is the fullness of the Spirit referred to by Paul in Ephesians 5:18? Often this text is read in terms of the empowerment of individual believers for discipleship and ministry, and this leads to difficulties in relating the text to its immediate literary context. This article suggests that reading the command as directed to the church in Ephesus as a corporate body, and the five participles which follow as participles of means instead of result, solves a number of issues normally related to this text.