1Therefore be ye followers of God, as most dearworthy sons;

2and walk ye in love, as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God, into the odour of sweetness.

3And fornication, and all unclean-ness, or avarice, be not named among you, as it becometh holy men;

4either filth, or folly speech, or buffoonery [or harlotry], that pertaineth not to profit, but more rather doing of thankings.

5For know ye this, and understand, that each lecher [or each fornicator], or unclean man, or covetous [man], that serveth to maumets [or to idols], hath not heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

6No man deceive you by vain words; for why for these things the wrath of God came upon the sons of unbelief.

7Therefore do not ye be made partners of them.

8For ye were sometime darknesses, but now ye be light in the Lord. Walk ye as the sons of light.

9For the fruit of light is in all goodness, and rightwiseness, and truth.

10And prove ye what thing is well pleasing to God.

11And do not ye commune to unfruiteous works of darknesses; but more rather reprove ye [them].

12For what things be done of them in privy, it is foul, yea, to speak.

13And all things that be reproved of the light, be openly showed [or be made open]; for all thing that is showed, is light.

14For which thing he saith, Rise thou that sleepest, and rise up from death, and Christ shall lighten [or illumine] thee.

15Therefore, brethren, see ye, how warily ye shall go; not as unwise men, but as wise men,

16again-buying the time, for the days be evil.

17Therefore do not ye be made unwise, but understanding which is the will of God [or of the Lord].

18And do not ye be drunk of wine, in which is lechery [or is luxury], but be ye filled with the Holy Ghost;

19and speak ye to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and saying psalm in your hearts to the Lord;

20evermore doing thankings for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God and to the Father.

21Be ye subject together in the dread of Christ.

22Women, be they subject to their husbands, as to the Lord,

23for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.

24But as the church is subject to Christ, so women to their husbands in all things.

25Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,

26to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,

27to give the church glorious to himself, that it had no wem, [or spot], nor rivelling [or wrinkle], or any such thing, but that it be holy and undefouled.

28So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;

29for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.

30And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.

32This sacrament is great; yea, I say in Christ, and in the church.

33Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.