✧Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; ✧2and 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. ✧3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; ✧4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. ✧5For 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. ✧6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. ✧7Be not ye therefore partakers with them; ✧8for 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), ✧10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; ✧11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them; ✧12for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. ✧13But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. ✧14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. ✧15Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; ✧16redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ✧17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ✧18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; ✧19speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; ✧20giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; ✧21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. ✧22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ✧23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body. ✧24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything. ✧25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; ✧26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, ✧27that 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. ✧28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: ✧29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church; ✧30because we are members of his body. ✧31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. ✧32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. ✧33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.