¹Be therefore imitators of God , as beloved children .

²Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us , an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance .

³But sexual immorality , and all uncleanness or covetousness , let it not even be mentioned amongst you , as becomes saints;

⁴nor filthiness, nor foolish talking , nor jesting , which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks .

⁵Know this for sure , that no sexually immoral person , nor unclean person , nor covetous man (who is an idolater ), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God .

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words , for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

⁷Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

⁸For you were once darkness , but are now light in the Lord . Walk as children of light ,

⁹for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

¹⁰proving what is well pleasing to the Lord .

¹¹Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness , but rather even reprove them .

¹²For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret .

¹³But all things , when they are reproved , are revealed by the light , for everything that reveals is light .

¹⁴Therefore he says , “Awake , you who sleep , and arise from the dead , and Christ will shine on you .”

¹⁵Therefore watch carefully how you walk , not as unwise, but as wise ,

¹⁶redeeming the time , because the days are evil .

¹⁷Therefore , don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is .

¹⁸Don’t be drunken with wine , in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit ,

¹⁹speaking to one another in psalms , hymns , and spiritual songs ; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord ;

²⁰giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God , even the Father ;

²¹subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ .

²²Wives , be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord .

²³For the husband is the head of the wife , as Christ also is the head of the assembly , being himself the saviour of the body .

²⁴But as the assembly is subject to Christ , so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything .

²⁵Husbands, love your wives , even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her ,

²⁶that he might sanctify her , having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word ,

²⁷that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing , but that she should be holy and without defect.

²⁸Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies . He who loves his own wife loves himself .

²⁹For no man ever hated his own flesh , but nourishes and cherishes it , even as the Lord also does the assembly ,

³⁰because we are members of his body , of his flesh and bones.

³¹“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife . Then the two will become one flesh .”[#Genesis 2:24]

³²This mystery is great , but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly .

³³Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself ; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.