1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, | TOSK |
2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. | IP¹ | IP² | IP³ | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ | TT⁶ | TT⁷ | TT⁸ |
3 But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. | C | TOSK |
4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. | TOSK |
5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. | TOSK |
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. | TOSK |
7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. | TOSK |
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, | TOSK |
9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. | TOSK |
10 Test and prove what pleases the Lord. | TOSK |
11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. | TOSK |
12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. | TOSK |
13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself. | TOSK |
14 So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT² |
15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, | TOSK |
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. | TOSK |
17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. | TOSK |
18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. | IP | TOSK | TT |
19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, | TOSK |
20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. | TOSK |
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. | TOSK |
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. | C | TOSK |
23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. | TOSK |
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. | TOSK |
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT¹ | TT² | LT |
26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ |
27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. | TOSK | TT |
28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. | TOSK | TT |
29 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. | TOSK | TT |
30 For we are members of His body. | TOSK | TT¹ | TT¹ |
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ | TT⁶ | TT |
32 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. | IP | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ | TT⁶ | TT |
33 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. | TOSK |