¹Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

¹¶ Na, kia rite ta koutou ki ta te Atua, kia pera me ta nga tamariki e arohaina ana;

²and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

²Haere hoki i runga i te aroha, kia pera me te Karaiti i aroha ki a tatou, i tuku i a ia ano mo tatou hei whakahere, hei patunga tapu ki te Atua, hei kakara pai.

³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

³¶ Ko te moepuku ia, me nga mahi poke katoa, me te apo, kaua ena e whakahuatia i roto i a koutou, kia rite ki ta te hunga tapu tikanga;

⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.

⁴Kaua hoki te mea paruparu, te korero wairangi, te korero maminga, kahore nei i tika, erangi ia te whakawhetai.

⁵For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

⁵E tino matau ana hoki koutou ki tenei, e kore tetahi tangata moepuku, poke ranei, apo ranei, he kaikarakia nei hoki ia ki te whakapakoko, e whai wahi ki te rangatiratanga o te Karaiti, a o te Atua.

⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

⁶Kei tinihangatia koutou e te tangata ki nga kupu tekateka noa: na enei mea hoki te riri o te Atua e puta nei ki nga tamariki a te tutu.

⁷Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

⁷Na, kaua koutou e uru ki ta ratou.

⁸for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord; walk as children of light,

⁸He pouri hoki koutou i mua, tena ko tenei, he marama i roto i te Ariki: kia rite ta koutou haere ki ta nga tamariki o te marama:

⁹(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)

⁹Kei runga hoki te hua o te marama i te pai katoa, i te tika, i te pono.

¹⁰proving what is agreeable to the Lord;

¹⁰Me whakamatau ano e koutou ta te Ariki e pai ai.

¹¹and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [them],

¹¹Kei uru koutou ki nga mahi huakore o te pouri, engari whakahengia.

¹²for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.

¹²He mea whakama hoki te whakahua kau, i nga mea e meinga ngarotia nei e ratou.

¹³But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.

¹³Ko nga mea katoa hoki e whakahengia ana, ma te marama e whakakite: he marama hoki nga mea katoa e whakakitea ana.

¹⁴Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

¹⁴Koia hoki tana kupu nei, Maranga, e tenei e moe nei, ara ake i roto i te hunga mate, a ka whiti a te Karaiti ki runga ki a koe.

¹⁵See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁵Na reira kia ata tirotiro i ta koutou haere, kei rite ki ta nga whakaarokore, engari ki ta nga whakaaro nui;

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁶Hokona te taima ma koutou, he kino hoki nga ra.

¹⁷For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is] the will of the Lord.

¹⁷Mo konei ra kei whakaarokore koutou, engari kia matau ki ta te Ariki e pai ai.

¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

¹⁸Kaua hoki e haurangi i te waina, he toreretanga hoki tena ki te he; engari kia ki i te Wairua;

¹⁹speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;

¹⁹Ko ta koutou korero ki a koutou ano, hei te waiata tapu, hei te himene, hei te waiata wairua; waiata, himene atu, i roto i o koutou ngakau ki te Ariki;

²⁰giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is] God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²⁰Me te whakawhetai ki te Atua, ara ki te Matua i nga wa katoa, mo nga mea katoa, i runga i te ingoa o to tatou Ariki, o Ihu Karaiti;

²¹submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.

²¹¶ Kia ngohengohe tetahi ki tetahi i runga i te wehi ki a te Karaiti.

²²Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

²²E nga wahine, kia ngohengohe ki a koutou tane ake, hei mea ki te Ariki.

²³for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly. *He* [is] Saviour of the body.

²³No te mea ko te tane te o te wahine, e rite ana hoki ki a te Karaiti, ko te ia o te hahi: ko te kaiwhakaora ano ia o te tinana.

²⁴But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

²⁴Otiia e ngohengohe ana te hahi ki ta te Karaiti, kia pera ano nga wahine ki a ratou tane i nga mea katoa.

²⁵Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

²⁵E nga tane, arohaina a koutou wahine, kia pera hoki me te Karaiti i aroha nei ki te hahi, i hoatu hoki i a ia ano mo taua hahi;

²⁶in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word,

²⁶Hei whakatapunga mana, ma rawa i a ia i te horoinga ki te wai, i runga i te kupu,

²⁷that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

²⁷Hei hahi tapae mana ki a ia ano, he hahi kororia rawa, kahore he ira, kahore he korukoru, tetahi atu mea pera ranei, engari kia tapu, kia kohakore.

²⁸So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

²⁸Me aroha e nga tane a ratou wahine me te mea ko o ratou tinana ake ano. Ko te tangata e aroha ana ki tana wahine ake, e aroha ana ki a ia ake ano.

²⁹For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

²⁹Kahore hoki tetahi kia kino noa ki tona kikokiko ake; engari e atawhai ana, e whakaahuru ana, e pera tonu ana me ta te Karaiti ki te hahi:

³⁰for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]

³⁰He wahi hoki tatou no tona tinana.

³¹Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

³¹Mo konei ra ka whakarerea ai e te tangata tona papa me tona whaea, a ka piri ki tana wahine, ka kikokiko kotahi to raua tokorua.

³²This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

³²He nui tenei mea ngaro; otiia mo te Karaiti raua ko te hahi taku korero.

³³But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the husband.

³³Engari kia rite ki tona aroha ki a ia ake ano to koutou aroha, to tenei, to tenei, ki tana wahine, ki tana wahine; me te wahine ano, kia hopohopo ia ki tana tane.