¹ Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,

² And walk in love—even as, the Christ also, loved you, and delivered himself up in your behalf, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for a fragrance of sweet smell.

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

⁴ And shamelessness and foolish talking, or jesting,—which things are beneath you,—but, rather, giving of thanks;

⁵ For, this, ye know, if ye take note—that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

⁶ Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:

⁷ Do not, then, become co-partners with them;

⁸ For ye were, at one time, darkness, but, now, are ye light in the Lord,—as children of light, be walking,

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

¹⁰ Putting to the test what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

¹¹ And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;

¹² For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!

¹³ All things, however, when reproved by the light, become manifest, for, all that of itself maketh manifest, is, light;

¹⁴ Wherefore it saith—Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

¹⁵ Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking,—not as unwise, but as wise,—

¹⁶ Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;

¹⁷ For this cause, do not become foolish, but have discernment as to what is the will of the Lord;

¹⁸ And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit;—

¹⁹ Speaking to yourselves, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing, and striking the strings, with your heart unto the Lord;

²⁰ Giving thanks, always, for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto your God and Father;

²¹ Submitting yourselves one to another in reverence of Christ,—

²² Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,

²³ Because, a husband, is the head of his wife, as, the Christ also, is the head of the assembly, he, being the saviour of the body,—

²⁴ Nevertheless, as, the assembly, submitteth herself unto the Christ, so, the wives, unto their husbands, in everything:

²⁵ Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,

²⁶ That, her, he might sanctify, having purified [her] with the bath of water, in declaration,

²⁷ That, he, might present, unto himself, the assembly, all glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she should be holy and blameless;

²⁸ So, ought the husbands [also] to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies,—he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,

²⁹ No one, in fact, ever yet hated, his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it,—even as, the Christ, the assembly,

³⁰ Because, members, are we of his body;—

³¹ For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and will cleave unto his wife, and, they two, shall become, one flesh.

³² This sacred secret, is, great,—I, however, am speaking as to Christ and [as to] the assembly;—

³³ Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, [see] that she reverence her husband.