¹⁵ So then, ^[a]be careful how you ^(A)walk, not ^(B)as unwise people but as wise, ^16 [b](C)making the most of your time, because ^(D)the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore do not be foolish, but ^(E)understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ And ^(F)do not get drunk with wine, ^[c]in which there is ^(G)debauchery, but be ^(H)filled with the Spirit, ^19 (I)speaking to ^[d]one another in ^(J)psalms and ^(K)hymns and spiritual ^(L)songs, ^(M)singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord; ^20 (N)always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our ^(O)God and Father; ^21 [e](P)and subject yourselves to one another in the ^[f](Q)fear of Christ.

Marriage like Christ and the Church

^22 (R)Wives, ^(S)subject yourselves to your own husbands, ^(T)as to the Lord. ²³ For ^(U)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the ^(V)head of the church, He Himself ^(W)being the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

^25 (X)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^(Y)gave Himself up for her, ^26 (Z)so that He might sanctify her, having ^(AA)cleansed her by the ^(AB)washing of water with ^(AC)the word, ²⁷ that He might ^(AD)present to Himself the church ^[g]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be ^(AE)holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands also ought to ^(AF)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, ³⁰ because we are ^(AG)parts of His ^(AH)body. ^31 (AI)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.