| 1 | Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, |
| 2 | and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell, |
| 3 | and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; |
| 4 | also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving; |
| 5 | for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. |
| 6 | Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, |
| 7 | become not, then, partakers with them, |
| 8 | for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, |
| 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 | and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict, |
| 12 | for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of, |
| 13 | and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light; |
| 14 | wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.` |
| 15 | See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, |
| 16 | redeeming the time, because the days are evil; |
| 17 | because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what [is] the will of the Lord, |
| 18 | and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit, |
| 19 | speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, |
| 20 | giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father; |
| 21 | subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. |
| 22 | The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, |
| 23 | because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body, |
| 24 | but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives to their own husbands in everything. |
| 25 | The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, |
| 26 | that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying, |
| 27 | that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; |
| 28 | so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love; |
| 29 | for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly, |
| 30 | because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones; |
| 31 | `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;` |
| 32 | this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly; |
| 33 | but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband. |
