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- Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,
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- and 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.
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- But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
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- and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient;
but rather thanksgiving.
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- For 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.
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- Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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- Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;
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- for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord;
walk as children of light,
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- (for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
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- proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
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- and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [them],
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- for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.
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- But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest;
for that which makes everything manifest is light.
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- Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
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- See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,
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- redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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- For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is] the will of the Lord.
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- And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery;
but be filled with the Spirit,
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- speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;
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- giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is] God and [the] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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- submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.
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- Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
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- for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly.
*He* [is] Saviour of the body.
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- But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
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- Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
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- in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word,
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- that *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.
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- So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.
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- For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:
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- for we are members of his body;
[we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]
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- Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
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- This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.
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- But *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.
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