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.