So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth were called "the uncircumcised" by those who called themselves "the circumcised." They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

Since they have lost all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to sensuality and practice every kind of sexual perversion without restraint.

and have nothing to do with the unfruitful actions that darkness produces. Instead, expose them for what they are.

In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.