1BE imitators of God as beloved children 2and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor. 3Unchastity or any kind of impurity or greediness must not be mentioned among you, as befits holy people; 4nor should there be indecent and foolish talk or jesting, which are unbecoming, but rather thanksgiving. 5For you know well that no unchaste or impure person, no greedy person \'97 who is an idolater \'97 has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. 7Do not, then, be partakers with them. 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light \'97 9for the fruit of light appears in all generosity and righteousness and truth \'97 10testing what is pleasing to the Lord, 11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, 12for the things that they do in secret it is shameful even to speak of. 13But all things when reproved are shown truly by the light, for everything shown truly is light. 14Therefore it says, "Wake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead and Christ will give you light." 15Be strictly careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise. 16Buy up the opportunity, because these are evil days. 17Therefore do not be thoughtless, but understand what is the Lord's will. 18Do not be drunk with wine, in which there is profligacy, but be full of the Spirit, 19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing the harp heartily to the Lord, 20giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. 21Be subject to one another in reverence for Christ, 22wives to their own husbands as in the Lord, 23because a man is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body. 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, 26that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word, 27that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless. 28Thus ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself, 29for no one ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30for we are members of his body. 31"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. 32"This mystery is great, but I am speaking of Christ and the church. 33But each one of you must love his own wife as himself, and the wife must reverence her husband.