1: Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; 2: and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell. 3: But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; 4: nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. 5: For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6: Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. 7: Be not ye therefore partakers with them; 8: For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light 9: (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10: proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; 11: and 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 made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. 14: Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. 15: Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; 16: redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17: Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18: And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; 19: speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; 20: giving thanks always for 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 in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23: For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body. 24: But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything. 25: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, 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 church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28: Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: 29: for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church; 30: because we are members of his body. 31: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. 32: This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. 33: Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
