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| 5:1 |
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,
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| 5:2 |
and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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| 5:3 |
But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.
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| 5:4 |
Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving.
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| 5:5 |
Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure person, or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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| 5:6 |
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.
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| 5:7 |
Therefore do not be associated with them.
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| 5:8 |
For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light--
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| 5:9 |
for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.
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| 5:10 |
Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.
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| 5:11 |
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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| 5:12 |
For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly;
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| 5:13 |
but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
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| 5:14 |
for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
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| 5:15 |
Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise,
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| 5:16 |
making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
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| 5:17 |
So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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| 5:18 |
Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
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| 5:19 |
as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,
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| 5:20 |
giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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| 5:21 |
Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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| 5:22 |
Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.
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| 5:23 |
For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.
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| 5:24 |
Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.
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| 5:25 |
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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| 5:26 |
in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word,
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| 5:27 |
so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind-- yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish.
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| 5:28 |
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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| 5:29 |
For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
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| 5:30 |
because we are members of his body.
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| 5:31 |
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
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| 5:32 |
This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church.
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| 5:33 |
Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
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