1 Be ye therefore followers of God , as dear children ;
2 And walk in love , as Christ also hath loved us , and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour .
3 But fornication , and all uncleanness , or covetousness , let it not be once named among you , as becometh saints ;
4 Neither filthiness , nor foolish talking , nor jesting , which are not convenient : but rather giving of thanks .
5 For this ye know , that no whoremonger , nor unclean person , nor covetous man , who is an idolater , hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God .
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience .
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them .
8 For ye were sometimes darkness , but now are ye light in the Lord : walk as children of light :
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth ;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord .
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness , but rather reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret .
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light : for whatsoever doth make manifest is light .
14 Wherefore he saith , Awake thou that sleepest , and arise from the dead , and Christ shall give thee light .
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly , not as fools , but as wise ,
16 Redeeming the time , because the days are evil .
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise , but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine , wherein is excess ; but be filled with the Spirit ;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs , singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord ;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God .
22 Wives , submit yourselves unto your own husbands , as unto the Lord .
23 For the husband is the head of the wife , even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body .
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ , so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing .
25 Husbands , love your wives , even as Christ also loved the church , and gave himself for it ;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word ,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church , not having spot , or wrinkle , or any such thing ; but that it should be holy and without blemish .
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies . He that loveth his wife loveth himself .
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh ; but nourisheth and cherisheth it , even as the Lord the church :
30 For we are members of his body , of his flesh , and of his bones .
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother , and shall be joined unto his wife , and they two shall be one flesh .
32 This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the church .
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself ; and the wife see that she reverence her husband .
