16. Make the most of your opportunities because these are evil days.
17. So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord wants.
18. Don’t get drunk on wine, which leads to wild living. Instead, be filled with the Spirit
19. by reciting psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for your own good. Sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts.
20. Always thank God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21. Place yourselves under each other’s authority out of respect for Christ.
22. Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord’s authority.
23. The husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is his body, and he is its Savior.
24. As the church is under Christ’s authority, so wives are under their husbands’ authority in everything.
25. Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
26. He did this to make the church holy by cleansing it, washing it using water along with spoken words.
27. Then he could present it to himself as a glorious church, without any kind of stain or wrinkle—holy and without faults.
28. So husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.