1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,
2 and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
4 and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
5 For this ye are {well} informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;
8 for ye were once darkness, but now light in {the} Lord; walk as children of light,
9 (for the fruit of the light {is} in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
10 proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
11 and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove {them},
12 for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.
13 But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he says, Wake up, {thou} that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
15 See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what {is} the will of the Lord.
18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;
20 giving thanks at all times for all things to him {who is} God and {the} Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 submitting yourselves to one another in {the} fear of Christ.
22 Wives, {submit yourselves} to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
23 for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ {is} head of the assembly. *He* {is} Saviour of the body.
24 But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
26 in order that he might sanctify it, purifying {it} by the washing of water by {the} word,
27 that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.
28 So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.
29 For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:
30 for we are members of his body; {we are of his flesh, and of his bones.}
31 Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
32 This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.
33 But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife {I speak} that she may fear the husband.
1 Bli derfor Guds efterfølgere som hans elskede barn,
2 og vandre i kjærlighet, likesom Kristus elsket eder og gav sig selv for oss som en gave og et offer, Gud til en velbehagelig duft.
3 Men utukt og all urenhet og havesyke må ikke engang nevnes iblandt eder, således som det sømmer sig for hellige,
4 heller ikke skamløs ferd og dårlig snakk eller lettferdig tale, som alt sammen er utilbørlig, men heller takksigelse.
5 For dette vet og skjønner I at ingen horkarl eller uren eller havesyk, som er en avgudsdyrker, har arv i Kristi og Guds rike.
6 La ingen dåre eder med tomme ord! for på grunn av disse ting kommer Guds vrede over vantroens barn;
7 ha derfor ikke noget med dem å gjøre!
8 For I var fordum mørke, men nu er I lys i Herren; vandre som lysets barn -
9 for lysets frukt viser sig i all godhet og rettferdighet og sannhet -
10 idet I prøver hvad som er velbehagelig for Herren,
11 og ha intet å gjøre med mørkets ufruktbare gjerninger, men refs dem heller!
12 For det som lønnlig drives av dem, er skammelig endog å si;
13 men når det refses, blir det alt åpenbaret av lyset; for alt som blir åpenbaret, er lys.
14 Derfor sier Skriften: Våkn op, du som sover, og stå op fra de døde, og Kristus skal lyse for dig.
15 Se derfor til hvorledes I kan vandre varlig, ikke som uvise, men som vise,
16 så I kjøper den beleilige tid; for dagene er onde.
17 Derfor, vær ikke dårer, men forstå hvad Herrens vilje er!
18 Og drikk eder ikke drukne av vin, for i det er der ryggesløshet, men bli fylt av Ånden,
19 så I taler til hverandre med salmer og lovsanger og åndelige viser, og synger og leker for Herren i eders hjerter,
20 og alltid sier Gud og Faderen takk for alle ting i vår Herre Jesu Kristi navn,
21 og underordner eder under hverandre i Kristi frykt.
22 I hustruer! underordne eder under eders egne menn som under Herren!
23 for mannen er hustruens hoved, likesom Kristus er menighetens hoved, han som er sitt legemes frelser.
24 Men likesom menigheten underordner sig under Kristus, således skal også hustruene underordne sig under sine menn i alle ting.
25 I menn! elsk eders hustruer, likesom Kristus elsket menigheten og gav sig selv for den,
26 for å hellige den, idet han renset den ved vannbadet i ordet,
27 forat han selv kunde fremstille menigheten for sig i herlighet, uten plett eller rynke eller noget sådant, men at den kunde være hellig og ulastelig.
28 Så er mennene skyldige å elske sine hustruer som sine egne legemer. Den som elsker sin hustru, elsker sig selv;
29 ingen har jo nogensinne hatet sitt eget kjød, men han før og varmer det, likesom Kristus gjør med menigheten;
30 for vi er hans legemes lemmer.
31 Derfor skal mannen forlate far og mor og holde sig til sin hustru, og de to skal være ett kjød.
32 Denne hemmelighet er stor; men jeg tenker hermed på Kristus og på menigheten.
33 Dog, også I skal elske, enhver sin hustru som sig selv, og hustruen skal ha ærefrykt for sin mann.