| 1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; | |
| 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. | |
| 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: | |
| 4 Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks. | |
| 5 For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath 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 anger of God upon the children of unbelief. | |
| 7 Be ye not therefore partakers with them. | |
| 8 For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light. | |
| 9 For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and justice, and truth; | |
| 10 Proving what is well pleasing to God: | |
| 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. | |
| 12 For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. | |
| 13 But all things that are reproved, are made manifest by the light; for all that is made manifest is light. | |
| 14 Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee. | |
| 15 See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise, | |
| 16 But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil. | |
| 17 Wherefore become not unwise, but understanding what is the will of God. | |
| 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury; but be ye filled with the holy Spirit, | |
| 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord; | |
| 20 Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father: | |
| 21 Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ. | |
| 22 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: | |
| 23 Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. | |
| 24 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things. | |
| 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: | |
| 26 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: | |
| 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 also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. | |
| 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: | |
| 30 Because 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 cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh. | |
| 32 This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church. | |
| 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband. | |
