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;