- Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- And live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.
- For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light.
- For the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.
- Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly.
- Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
- Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
- In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
- Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.