| 1 | Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. |
| 2 | Walk in love, even as Christ 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 Christ 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 don't 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 Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, |
| 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 Christ 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 don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. |
| 18 | Don't 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 making melody in your heart to the Lord; |
| 20 | giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; |
| 21 | subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. |
| 22 | Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. |
| 23 | For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. |
| 24 | But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. |
| 25 | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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 assembly 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 the Lord also does the assembly; |
| 30 | because we are members of his body, 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." |
| 32 | This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. |
| 33 | Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. |
