1 Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children,
2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.
3 But sexual immorality and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;
4 nor shameful conduct, nor foolish talk or jesting, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.
5 For this you know well, that every sexually immoral or unclean or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
6 Do not let anyone mislead you with hollow words, for it is because of these things that God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
7 So do not be partakers with them.
8 For you were once 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 proving what is acceptable to the Lord.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
12 For the things done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.
13 But everything that is brought to light is made visible by the light; for whatever makes things visible is light.
14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
15 See, then, that you walk with care, not as unwise but as wise,
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation, 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 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God and the Father,
21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and he is the Savior of the body.
24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her,
26 so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her with the washing of water by the word,
27 so that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his own wife loves himself.
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church,
30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh."
32 This is a great mystery, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she reverences her husband.