Imitators of God
1Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;+ 2and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.+ 3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;+ 4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.+ 5For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.+ 6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.+ 7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;+Children of Light
8for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light+ 9( for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),+ 10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;+ 11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works 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 made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.+ 14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.+ 15Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;+ 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.+ 17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.+ 18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;+ 19speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;+ 20giving thanks always for 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 one to another in the fear of Christ.+ 22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.+ 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.+ 24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.+ 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, 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 church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.+ 28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:+ 29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;+ 30because we are members of his body.+ 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.+ 32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.+ 33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.+