1 B ecome, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

2 a nd walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

3 a nd whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

4 a lso filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;

5 f or this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

6 L et no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

7 b ecome not, then, partakers with them,

8 f or ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

9 f or the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

10 p roving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

11 a nd have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

12 f or the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

13 a nd all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;

14 w herefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

15 S ee, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

16 r edeeming the time, because the days are evil;

17 b ecause of this become not fools, but -- understanding what the will of the Lord,

18 a nd be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

19 s peaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

20 g iving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

21 s ubjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

22 T he wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

23 b ecause the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

24 b ut even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.

25 T he husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

26 t hat he might sanctify it, having cleansed with the bathing of the water in the saying,

27 t hat he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

28 s o ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

29 f or no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

30 b ecause members we are 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 to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

32 t his secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

33 b ut ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.