thiness, and
foolish talking, and jesting, which are not becoming, but rather
giving of thanks. (5)For this ye know, being aware that no fornicator,
nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has an
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. (6)Let no one deceive
you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of
God upon the sons of disobedience.

(7)Become not therefore partakers with them. (8)For ye were once
darkness, but 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 acceptable to the Lord; (11)and have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also
reprove them. (12)For it is a shame even to speak of the things done
by them in secret. (13)But all things, when reproved, are by the light
made manifest; for whatever makes manifest is light. (14)Wherefore he
says: Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ
will give thee light.

(15)See to it then, how ye walk with exactness, not as unwise, but as
wise, (16)redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (17)Therefore
be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

(18)And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with
the Spirit; (19)speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
(20)giving thanks always for all things, to God and the Father, in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ; (21)submitting yourselves to one
another in the fear of Christ; (22)wives to their own husbands, as to
the Lord. (23)Because a husband is the head of the wife, as also
Christ is the head of the church; himself the Savior of the body.
(24)But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also are the wives to
their own husbands in everything.

(25)Husbands, love your wives, as also Christ loved the church, and
gave himself up for it; (26)that he might sanctify it, having cleansed
it by the bathing of water in the word, (27)that he might himself
present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle,
or any such thing, but that it may be holy and blameless. (28)So
husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves
his wife loves himself. (29)For no one ever hated his own flesh; but
nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the church; (30)because we
are members of his body, [being] o