¹ Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

² and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,

⁴ neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor indecent jesting, which are not becoming; but rather giving of thanks.

⁵ For of this ye are sure, since ye know that no whore-monger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷ Be not therefore partakers with them.

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

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

¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord;

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

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

¹³ But all things, when reproved, are made manifest by the light; for whatever maketh manifest is light.

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light."

¹⁵ See then that ye walk circumspectly; not as unwise men, but as wise;

¹⁶ buying up for yourselves opportunities, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Wherefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord;

²³ for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,—he, who is the Saviour of the body.

²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of the water in the word;

²⁷ that he himself might present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;

²⁹ for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ doth 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 father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."

³² This mystery is a great one; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.

³³ However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.