Imitators of God
1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.+ 2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us 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 amongst 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 it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.+ 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 saviour 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 her,+ 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her 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 she 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. Then the two will become one flesh.”+ 32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and 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.+