15. So be very careful how you live. Do not live like those who are not wise. Live wisely.
16. I mean that you should use every chance you have for doing good, because these are evil times.
17. So do not be foolish with your lives. But learn what the Lord wants you to do.
18. Do not be drunk with wine. That will ruin you spiritually. But be filled with the Spirit.
19. Speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord.
20. Always give thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21. Be willing to obey each other. Do this because you respect Christ.
22. Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
23. The husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. The church is Christ’s body—Christ is the Savior of the body.
24. The church is under the authority of Christ. So it is the same with you wives. You should be under the authority of your husbands in everything.
25. Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church. Christ died for the church
26. to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.
27. Christ died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other wrong thing in it.
28. And husbands should love their wives in the same way. They should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.