For ye were sometime darkness [ignorant],

but now are ye Light [knowledgeable] in the Lord: walk as children of Light;

(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and Truth);

proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,

but rather reprove them.

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:

for whatsoever doth make manifest is Light.

Wherefore He saith,

Awake thou that sleepest,

and arise from the dead [spiritual death], and Christ shall give thee Light.

See then that ye walk circumspectly,

not as fools, but as wise.

redeeming the time because the days are evil.

Wherefore be ye not unwise,

but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

And be ye not drunk with wine,

wherein is excess;

but be filled with the Spirit;

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

giving thanks always for all things

unto God and the Father

In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,

as unto the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife,

even as Christ is the head of the Church:

and he is the savior of the body [man and wife as one].

Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ,

so let wives be to their own husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives,

even as Christ also loved the Church,

and gave Himself for it;

that He might sanctify and cleanse it with

the washing of water by the Word,

that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church,

not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing;

but that it should be Holy and without blemish.

So ought men to Love their wives as their own bodies.

He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh;

but nourisheth and cherisheth it,

even as the Lord the Church;

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother,

and shall be joined unto his wife,

and they two shall be one flesh.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.

Nevertheless, let everyone of you in particular

so Love his wife

even as himself;

and the wife see that she reverence her husband.