15. Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),
16. Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil.
17. Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is.
18. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but ever be filled and stimulated with the [Holy] Spirit. [Prov. 23:20.]
19. Speak out to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, offering praise with voices [and instruments] and making melody with all your heart to the Lord,
20. At all times and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.
21. Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
22. Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.
23. For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of [His] body.
24. As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.