Imitators of God
1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,+ 2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.+ 3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.+ 4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.+ 5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.+ 6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.+ 7Therefore do not be partakers with them.+Children of Light
8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,+ 9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.+ 10Test and prove what pleases the Lord.+ 11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.+ 12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.+ 13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.+ 14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”+ 15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,+ 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.+ 17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.+ 18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.+ 19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,+ 20always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.+Wives and Husbands
Song of Solomon 1:1–17; 1 Peter 3:1–7
21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.+ 22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.+ 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.+ 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.+ 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her+ 26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,+ 27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.+ 28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.+ 29Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.+ 30For we are members of His body.+ 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.”+ 32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.+ 33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.+