Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it;

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children;

See therefore how ye walk accurately, not as unwise, but as wise,

Speaking to yourselves on harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, singing and playing on the harp in your heart to the Lord;

For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute.

And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;

For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light:

And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.

That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word,

For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Trying what is pleasing to the Lord.

Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father;

But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

And all things refuted, by light are made manifest: for everything made manifest is light.

For the things done secretly by them it is also shameful to speak.

And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.

But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church:

Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless.

Making purchase of time, for the days are evil.

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself.

For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

(For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;)

This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.