¹ Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

² Walk in love, even as Messiah also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

³ But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

⁴ nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

⁵ Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Messiah and God.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

⁷ Therefore do not be partakers with them.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

⁹ for the fruit of the light¹ is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

1. NU P Vg. M TR read "Spirit" instead of "light"

¹⁰ proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

¹¹ Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

¹² For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.

¹³ But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

¹⁴ Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you."

¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸ Do not be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord;

²⁰ giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to God the Father;

²¹ subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Messiah¹.

1. TR reads "God" instead of "Messiah"

²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, and Messiah also is the head of the congregation, being himself the savior of the body.

²⁴ But as the congregation is subject to Messiah, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah also loved the congregation, and gave himself up for it;

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

²⁷ that he might present the congregation to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Messiah¹ also does the congregation;

1. NU P Vg. M TR read "the Lord" instead of "Messiah"

³⁰ because we are members of his body¹.

1. M TR add "of his flesh and bones"

³¹ "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."¹

1. Genesis 2:24

³² This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Messiah and of the congregation.

³³ Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.