¹Be 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;

²Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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 sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as 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;

⁴nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

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

⁵Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of 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 empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children 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.

⁷Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

⁷Na, kaua koutou e uru ki ta ratou.

⁸For you were once darkness, but are 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:

⁹for the fruit of the Spirit 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 well pleasing to the Lord.

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

¹¹Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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

¹²For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.

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

¹³But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

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

¹⁴Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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.

¹⁵Therefore watch carefully how you walk, 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.

¹⁷Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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

¹⁸Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, 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 one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in 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 always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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;

²¹subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

²²Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

²³For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior 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 as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be 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 wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave 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;

²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with 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 gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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.

²⁸Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who 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 man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does 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:

³⁰because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

³⁰He wahi hoki tatou no tona tinana.

³¹“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24

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 concerning Christ and of the assembly.

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

³³Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her 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.