Imitators of God

1Be ye the folowers therfore of God as deare children, 2and walke in loue, euen as Christ loued vs, and gaue him selfe for vs an offerynge and sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto God.

3As for whordome and all vnclennes, or couetousnes, let it not be named amoge you, as it becommeth sayntes: 4nether fylthines, ner folish talkynge, ner ieastynge (which are not comly) but rather geuynge of thakes. 5For be sure, that no whore monger, or vncleane person, or couetous person (which is a worshipper off ymages) hath inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christ and of God.

6(Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes) for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue. 7Be not ye therfore companions with them.

Children of Light

8For sometyme ye were darknesse, but now are ye lighte in the LORDE. Walke as the children of lighte. 9(For the frute of the sprete is all maner of goodnes, and righteousnes and trueth:) 10and prone what is pleasinge vnto the LORDE, 11and haue no fellishippe with ye vnfrutefull workes of darknes, but rather rebuke the. 12For it is shame euen to name those thinges, which are done of them in secrete. 13But all thinges are manifest, whan they are rebuked of the lighte. For what so euer is manifest, that same is lighte.

14Therfore sayeth he: Awake thou that slepest, and stonde vp fro the deed, and Christ shal geue the lighte.

15Take hede therfore how ye walke circumspectly, not as the vnwyse, but as ye wyse, 16and redeme the tyme, for it is a miserable tyme. 17Wherfore be not ye vnwyse, but vnderstonde what the wil of the LORDE is, 18and be not dronken with wyne, wherin is excesse: but be full of the sprete 19and talke amoge youre selues of Psalmes, and ymnes, and spirituall songes, synginge and makynge melody vnto the LORDE in youre hertes 20geuynge thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God the father, in the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,

Wives and Husbands
(Song of Solomon 1:1–17; 1 Peter 3:1–7)

21submyttinge youreselues one to another in the feare of God.

22Let the wemen submytte them selues vnto their hussbandes, as vnto the LORDE. 23For the hussbande is the wyues heade, eue as Christ also is the heade of the congregacion, and he is the Sauioure of his body. 24Therfore as the congregacion is in subieccion to Christ, likewyse let the wyues be in subieccion to their hussbandes in all thinges.

25Ye hussbandes loue youre wyues, euen as Christ loued the congregacion, and gaue himselfe for it, 26to sanctifye it, and clensed it in the fountayne of water by the worde, 27to make it vnto himselfe a glorious congregacion, hauynge no spot ner wrynkle, ner eny soch thinge, but that it shulde be holy and without blame. 28So oughte men also to loue their wyues, euen as their awne bodyes. He that loueth his wife, loueth himselfe. 29For no ma euer yet hated his awne flesshe, but norisheth and cherissheth it, euen as the LORDE doth also the congregacion. 30For we are membres of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. 31For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleue vnto his wife, and they two shal be one flesh: 32This is a greate secrete: but I speake of Christ and the congregacion. 33Neuertheles do ye so, that euery one of you loue his wife euen as himselfe: but let the wife feare hir hussbande.