Chapter 5
1 Be therefore imitators of God , as beloved children .
2 Walk in love, even as Christ 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 saints;
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 Christ 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 Christ 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 Jesus Christ to God , even the Father ;
21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ .
22 Wives , be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord .
23 For the husband is the head of the wife , as Christ also is the head of the assembly , being himself the savior of the body .
24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ , so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything .
25 Husbands, love your wives , even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her ,
26 that he might sanctify her , having cleansed her 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 she 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 . Then the two will become one flesh ."
32 This mystery is great , but I speak concerning Christ and 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.