15. So be careful how you live. Don't live like ignorant people, but like wise people.
16. Make good use of every opportunity you have, because these are evil days.
17. Don't be fools, then, but try to find out what the Lord wants you to do.
18. Do not get drunk with wine, which will only ruin you; instead, be filled with the Spirit.
19. Speak to one another with the words of psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing hymns and psalms to the Lord with praise in your hearts.
20. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father.
21. Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.
22. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
23. For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Saviour of the church, his body.
24. And so wives must submit completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.
25. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
26. He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,
27. in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty — pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.
28. Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
29. (People never hate their own bodies. Instead, they feed them and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
30. for we are members of his body.)
31. As the scripture says, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.”
32. There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church.