5:1  Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children

5:2  and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

5:3  But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.

5:4  Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.

5:5  For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

5:6  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.

5:7  Therefore do not be partners with them.

5:8  For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light

5:9  (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

5:10  and find out what pleases the Lord.

5:11  Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

5:12  For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

5:13  But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

5:14  for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:
"Wake up, O sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you."

5:15  Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,

5:16  making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

5:17  Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

5:18  Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

5:19  Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,

5:20  always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

5:21  Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

5:22  Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

5:24  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

5:25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

5:26  to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

5:27  and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

5:28  In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

5:29  After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—

5:30  for we are members of his body.

5:31  "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

5:32  This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

5:33  However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.