¹ Therefore, become° imitators of God, as beloved children,

² and walk° in love$, just-as the Christ also loved$ us and gave himself up on our behalf as an offering and a sacrifice to God $for an aroma of a sweet-fragrance.

³ But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or greed even be named among you°, as is suitable to holy-ones;

⁴ and do not allow obscenity, and foolish-talk or crude-humor, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving.

⁵ For$ this you° are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean person, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

⁶ Let no one deceive you° with empty words; for$ because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷ Therefore, do° not become joint partakers with them.

⁸ For$ you° were previously darkness, but now you° are 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 testing what is well pleasing to the Lord.

¹¹ And have° no fellowship together-with the unfruitful works of darkness, but also rather reprove° them,

¹² for$ it is shameful even to speak of the things happening by them covertly.

¹³ But all things which are reproved, are manifested by the light, for$ everything which is manifested is light.

¹⁴ Hence he says, Arise, he who is sleeping, and rise$ up from the dead and the Christ will gleam upon you.

¹⁵ Therefore, beware° how accurately you° are walking, not as unwise, but as wise,

¹⁶ buying up the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Because of this, do° not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸ And do° not be drunk with wine, in which there is riotousness, but be° filled in the Spirit,

¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and in hymns and in spiritual songs, singing and singing-praise in your° heart to the Lord;

²⁰ giving-thanks always on behalf of all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God and Father;

²¹ and being subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

²² The wives subject° yourselves to your° own husbands, as to the Lord,

²³ because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is also the head of the congregation$ of believers; he himself is the savior of the body.

²⁴ But just-like the congregation$ is subject to the Christ, so let the wives also be subject to their own husbands in all things.

²⁵ The husbands, love

²⁶ in-order-that he might make her holy, cleansed her in the full-washing of the water in the word,

²⁷ in-order-that he might present her to himself, the glorious congregation$, not having stain or wrinkle or any such things, but in-order-that she should be holy and unblemished.

²⁸ So the husbands ought to love$ their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves$ his own wife loves$ himself.

²⁹ For$ no one ever hated his own flesh, but is nourishing and cherishing it, just-as the Lord also does the congregation$ of believers,

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

³¹ Because of this, a man will be leaving his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will be joined into one flesh. {Gen 2:24}

³² This mystery is great, but I am speaking in regard to Christ and in regard to the congregation$ of believers.

³³ However to you° also every one, let each thus love$ his own wife like himself, and let the wife that$ she should fear {i.e., respect} the husband.