11. and don’t participate in the unfruitful actions of darkness. Instead, you should reveal the truth about them.
12. It’s embarrassing to even talk about what certain persons do in secret.
13. But everything exposed to the light is revealed by the light.
14. Everything that is revealed by the light is light. Therefore, it says, Wake up, sleeper! Get up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
15. So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly.
16. Take advantage of every opportunity because these are evil times.
17. Because of this, don’t be ignorant, but understand the Lord’s will.
18. Don’t get drunk on wine, which produces depravity. Instead, be filled with the Spirit in the following ways:
19. speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; sing and make music to the Lord in your hearts;
20. always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21. and submit to each other out of respect for Christ.
22. For example, wives should submit to their husbands as if to the Lord.
23. A husband is the head of his wife like Christ is head of the church, that is, the savior of the body.
24. So wives submit to their husbands in everything like the church submits to Christ.
25. As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.
26. He did this to make her holy by washing her in a bath of water with the word.
27. He did this to present himself with a splendid church, one without any sort of stain or wrinkle on her clothes, but rather one that is holy and blameless.
28. That’s how husbands ought to love their wives—in the same way as they do their own bodies. Anyone who loves his wife loves himself.