Imitators of God
1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.+ 2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.+ 3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;+ 4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.+ 5Know 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.+ 6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.+ 7Therefore don’t be partakers with them.+Children of Light
8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,+ 9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,+ 10proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.+ 11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.+ 12For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.+ 13But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.+ 14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”+ 15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;+ 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.+ 17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.+ 18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,+ 19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;+ 20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;+Wives and Husbands
Song of Solomon 1:1–17; 1 Peter 3:1–7
21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.+ 22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.+ 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.+ 24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.+ 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;+ 26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,+ 27that 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.+ 28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.+ 29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;+ 30because 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.”+ 32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.+ 33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.+