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.
25. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
26. So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,
27. That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].
28. Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
29. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
30. Because we are members (parts) of His body.
31. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]