Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love,
even as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweet smell.
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanksgiving.
For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
Be not therefore fellow-partakers with them;
for ye were once darkness but now [are] light in the Lord: walk as children of light
(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather also reprove;
for the things in secret done by them it is shameful even to speak of,
but all of them, when reproved by the light, are made manifest; for everything that maketh manifest is light.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise out of [the] dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
See therefore how carefully ye walk, not as unwise but as wise,
buying up the time, because the days are evil.
On this account be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].
And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled with [the] Spirit,
speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting in your heart to the Lord;
giving thanks always for all things in [the] name of our Lord Jesus Christ to him that is God and Father,
submitting yourselves one to another in fear of Christ.
Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands as to the Lord;
for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly: he [is] the saviour of the body.
But as the assembly is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for it,
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word,
that he might himself present to himself the assembly glorious, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it should be holy and blameless.
Thus ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his own wife loveth himself,
for no one ever hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Christ also the assembly:
for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Because of this shall a man leave father and mother and shall be closely joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
This mystery is great; but I speak as to Christ and as to the assembly.
Nevertheless, ye also every one, let each so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife fear the husband.