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¹ Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, ² and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us,^(C1) a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. ³ But sexual immorality^(C1) and any impurity^(C2) or greed^(C3) should not even be heard of^(F1) among you, as is proper for saints. ⁴ Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. ⁵ For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral^(C1) or impure^(C2) or greedy^(C3) person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom^(C4) of Christ and of God.

Light versus Darkness

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath^(C1) is coming on the disobedient^(F1) because of these things. ⁷ Therefore, do not become their partners. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light^(C1) in the Lord. Live as children of light^(C2)— ⁹ for the fruit of the light^(F1) consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth^(C1)— ¹⁰ testing^(C1) what is pleasing^(C2) to the Lord. ¹¹ Don’t participate in the fruitless^(C1) works 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 visible,^{(C1) 14} for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:

Consistency in the Christian Life

¹⁵ Pay careful attention, then, to how you live—not as unwise people but as wise— ¹⁶ making the most of the time,^(F1)(C1) because the days are evil. ¹⁷ So don’t be foolish, but understand^(C1) what the Lord’s will^(C2) is. ¹⁸ And don’t get drunk^(C1) with wine,^(C2) which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:^{(C3) 19} speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with 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.^(C1)

Wives and Husbands

²² Wives,^(C1) submit^(F1)(C2) to your husbands^(C3) as to the Lord, ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife^(C1) as Christ is the head^(C2) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.^{(C3) 24} Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(C1) just as Christ loved^(C2) the church and gave himself^(C3) for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^(F1) her 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.^{(C1) 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.^{(F1) 31} For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,^(C1) and the two will become one flesh.^{(F1)(C2) 32} This mystery^(C1) is 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.