[1] Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
[2] Walk in love, even as Messiah also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
[3] But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes holy ones;
[4] nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
[5] Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Messiah and God.
[6] Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
[7] Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
[8] For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
[9] for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
[10] proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
[11] Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
[12] For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
[13] But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
[14] Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you.”
[15] Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
[16] redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
[17] Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
[18] Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
[19] speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
[20] giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, to God, even the Father;
[21] subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Messiah.
[22] Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
[23] For the husband is the head of the wife, as Messiah also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
[24] But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
[25] Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
[26] that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
[27] that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
[28] Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
[29] For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
[30] because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
[31] “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
[32] This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Messiah and of the assembly.
[33] Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.