^{1 Ref} Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

^{3 Ref} But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

^{4 Ref} nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

^{5 Ref} Know 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.

^{6 Ref} Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

^{7 Ref} Therefore don't be partakers with them.

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

^{9 Ref} for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

^{10 Ref} proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

^{11 Ref} Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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

^{13 Ref} But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that is revealed is light.

^{14 Ref} Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

^{15 Ref} Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

^{16 Ref} redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

^{17 Ref} Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

^{18 Ref} Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

^{19 Ref} speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord;

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

^{21 Ref} subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

^{22 Ref} Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

^{23 Ref} For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

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

^{25 Ref} Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

^{26 Ref} that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

^{27 Ref} that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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

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

^{30 Ref} because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

^{31 Ref} "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

^{32 Ref} This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

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