Imitators of God
1Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,+ 2and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,+ 3and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;+ 4also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, --the things not fit--but rather thanksgiving;+ 5for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.+ 6Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,+ 7become not, then, partakers with them,+Children of Light
8for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,+ 9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,+ 10proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,+ 11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,+ 12for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,+ 13and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;+ 14wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'+ 15See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,+ 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil;+ 17because of this become not fools, but--understanding what is the will of the Lord,+ 18and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,+ 19speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,+ 20giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;+Wives and Husbands
Song of Solomon 1:1–17; 1 Peter 3:1–7
21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.+ 22The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,+ 23because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,+ 24but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.+ 25The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,+ 26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,+ 27that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;+ 28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;+ 29for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,+ 30because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;+ 31`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'+ 32this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;+ 33but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.+