1 Therefore be followers of God, as dear children;
2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
3 But fornication, and all lustful, wasteful, luxurious living or covetousness, don't let it be named once among you, as is fitting for Christians;
4 Neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor offensive, rude, or abusive remarks, which are not fitting. No. Rather giving thanks.
5 For this you know, that no one who engages in unlawful sex, nor morally unclean persons, nor one who desires what others have, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no one deceive you with utterances that are devoid of truth. For because of these things the wrath of God comes on the mature sons of obstinate opposition to God's will.
7 Therefore, don't be partakers with them.
8 For you were sometimes darkness, but now you are 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 recognizing, after careful examination, what is pleasing to the Lord.
11 And do not partake of the unfruitful works of darkness at all, but rather rebuke them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them secretly.
13 But all things that are rebuked are made visible by the light. For whatever makes visible is light.
14 Therefore, He says, "Awake you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
15 See then that you live flawlessly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 redeeming the time because the days are evil.
17 Therefore, do not be unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your innermost mind to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the reverence of God.
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: and he is the Savior of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it;
26 That He might sanctify and purify it with the washing of water by the utterance,
27 That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord 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 his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence and obey her husband. * *