Part 5

005:010 and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord.

005:011 Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them;

005:012 for the things which are done by these people in secret it is disgraceful even to speak of.

005:013 But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light.

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 cherishes the Church;

005:030 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

005:031 "For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

005:032 That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.

005:033 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

006:001 Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

006:002 "Honour your father and your mother"--this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--

006:003 "so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth."

006:004 And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.