1. So be imitators of God, as beloved children,
2. and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
3. Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones,
4. no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving.
5. Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that is, an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6. Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.
7. So do not be associated with them.
8. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
9. for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.