1 Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.
2 And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us,a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
3 But sexual immoralityand any impurityor greedshould not even be heard ofamong you, as is proper for saints.
4 Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
5 For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoralor impureor greedyperson, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdomof the Messiah and of God.
Light versus Darkness
6 Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrathis coming on the disobedient because of these things.
7 Therefore, do not become their partners.
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are lightin the Lord. Walk as children of light—
9 for the fruit of the lightresults in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—
10 discerningwhat is pleasingto the Lord.
11 Don’t participate in the fruitlessworks of darkness, but instead expose them.
12 For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.
13 Everything exposed by the light is made clear,
14 for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:
Get up, sleeper,and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.
Consistency in the Christian Life
15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk — not as unwise people but as wise —
16 making the most of the time,because the days are evil.
17 So don’t be foolish, but understandwhat the Lord’s willis.
18 And don’t get drunkwith wine,which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:
19 speaking to one another
in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
singing and making music
from your heart to the Lord,
20 giving thanks always for everything
to God the Father
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 submitting to one another
in the fear of Christ.
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives,submitto your own husbandsas to the Lord,
23 for the husband is the head of the wifeas Christ is the headof the church. He is the Savior of the body.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives,just as Christ lovedthe church and gave Himselffor her
26 to make her holy, cleansingher with the washing of water by the word.
27 He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
30 since we are members of His body.
31 For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh.
32 This mysteryis profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
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