005:014 For this reason it is said, "Rise, sleeper; rise from among
the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you."
005:015 Therefore be very careful how you live and act.
Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise.
005:016 Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.
005:017 On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense,
but try to understand what the Lord's will is.
005:018 Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy--
005:019 but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise
in your hearts to the Lord.
005:020 Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father
be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
005:021 and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
005:022 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
005:023 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head
of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.
005:024 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married
women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.
005:025 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church
and gave Himself up to death for her;
005:026 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal
water by the word,
005:027 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride,
without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be
holy and unblemished.
005:028 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they
love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.
005:029 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary
he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and