Children of light
1So be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2and walk in love, just as the Christ loved us and handed himself over for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God, a pleasing fragrance. 3But sexual immorality and every impurity or greed — do not let them even be named among you, as is fitting for the saints; 4no obscenity, no foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but thanksgiving instead. 5Know this and be sure of it: no one who is sexually immoral or impure or greedy — that is, an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God. 6Let no one deceive you with empty words; it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. 7Do not become their partners, then. 8For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light — 9for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth — 10testing what is pleasing to the Lord. 11Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather, expose them. 12For what they do in secret is shameful even to mention, 13but everything exposed by the light is made visible, for whatever is made visible is light. 14That is why it says: “Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and the Christ will shine on you.”
Filled with the Spirit
15Watch carefully, then, how you walk: not as unwise, but as wise, 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17Therefore do not be foolish; understand what the will of the Lord is. 18And do not get drunk with wine, in which lies reckless ruin, but be filled with the Spirit, 19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and songs of the Spirit, singing and making music in your heart to the Lord, 20always giving thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21submitting to one another in the fear of Christ,
Husbands and wives, the Christ and the church
22Wives, to your own husbands as to the Lord; 23for the husband is head of the wife, as the Christ too is head of the church, he himself the Savior of the body. 24But as the church submits to the Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her, 26to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in glory, with no stain or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and unblemished. 28In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh; he feeds it and cares for it, just as the Christ does the church, 30for 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.” 32This mystery is great; I am speaking of the Christ and of the church. 33Only this: each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to fear her husband.
