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¹ Become, then, followers of God, as beloved children,² and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a refreshing fragrance,

³ and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, do not let it even be named among you, as is proper to holy ones;⁴ also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting—the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving;⁵ for you know this, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things comes the anger of God on the sons of the disobedience;⁷ do not become, then, partakers with them,⁸ for you were once darkness, and now light in the LORD; walk as children of light,⁹ for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,¹⁰ proving what is well-pleasing to the LORD;¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,¹² for it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret,¹³ and all the things reproved by the light are revealed, for everything that is revealed is light;¹⁴ for this reason it says, "Arouse yourself, you who are sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ will shine on you."¹⁵ See, then, how exactly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil;¹⁷ do not become fools because of this, but—understanding what [is] the will of the LORD,¹⁸ and do not be drunk with wine, in which is wastefulness, but be filled in the Spirit,¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD,²⁰ always giving thanks for all things, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father,

²¹ subjecting yourselves 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 head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the Assembly, and He is Savior of the body,²⁴ but even as the Assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives [subject] to their own husbands in everything.²⁵ The husbands: love your own wives, as the Christ also loved the Assembly, and gave Himself for it,²⁶ that He might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying,²⁷ that He might present the Assembly to Himself in glory, having no spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—he loves himself;²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and nurtures it, as also the LORD—the Assembly,³⁰ because we are members of His body, [[of His flesh, and of His bones.]]³¹ "For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh";³² this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the Assembly;³³ but you also, everyone in particular—let each so love his own wife as himself, and the wife—that she may revere the husband.