1Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children, 2and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."¶ 3As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them; 4so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving. 5For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience; 7therefore do not become sharers with them. 8For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord. 9Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth. 10Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord, 11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them. 12For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret; 13but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light. 14For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!" 15See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men. 16Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil. 17For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord’s will is. 18Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit, 19when you talk together; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord; 20and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.¶ 21Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ. 22Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord, 23because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves. 24But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, 26in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, 27so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless. 28That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church; 30for we are members of his body. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32There is a deep mystery here - I am speaking of Christ and his church. 33But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.¶