Eph 5
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Be you therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
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and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering
and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among
you, as becomes saints;
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nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather
giving of thanks.
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For this you know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous
man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things comes the anger
of God upon the sons of disobedience.
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Be not you therefore partakers with them;
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For you were once darkness, but are 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 well-pleasing to the Lord;
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and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove
them;
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for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.
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But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything
that is made manifest is light.
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Wherefore [he] says, Awake, you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall
shine upon you.
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Look therefore carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
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redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Wherefore be you not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
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speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
melody with your heart to the Lord;
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giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even
the Father;
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subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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Wives, [be in subjection] to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church,
[being] himself the saviour of the body.
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But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands
in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself
up for it;
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that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
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that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves
his own wife loves himself:
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for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ
also the church;
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because we are members of his body.
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
and the two shall become one flesh.
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This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
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Nevertheless do you also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and
[let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.