1. Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.
2. And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
3. But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
4. And coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
5. For know and recognize this: no sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
6. Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things God's wrath is coming on the disobedient.
7. Therefore, do not become their partners.
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 light [results] in all goodness, righteousness, and truth--
10. discerning what is pleasing to the Lord.
11. Don't participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead, expose them.
12. For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.
13. Everything exposed by the light is made clear,
14. for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.
15. Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk-- not as unwise people but as wise--
16. making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
17. So don't be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
18. And don't get drunk with wine, which [leads to] reckless actions, but be filled with the Spirit:
19. speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music to the Lord in your heart,
20. giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21. submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.
22. Wives, submit 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. He is the Savior of the body.
24. Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives should [submit] to their husbands in everything.
25. Husbands, love your wives, just as also Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,
26. to make her holy, cleansing her in the washing of water by the word.
27. He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and blameless.
28. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29. For no one ever hates his own flesh, but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
30. since we are members of His body.
31. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
32. This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
33. To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.