Eph 5
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Be therefore imitators of Aloha, as beloved children;
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and walk in love, as the Meshiha also loved us, and delivered himself for us, an offering
and a sacrifice to Aloha of a fragrant smell.
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BUT fornication and all uncleanness and covetousness, let them not be even heard among
you, as it becometh the saints;
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neither filthiness, nor words of folly, or of jeering, or fables, which are not necessary,
but, instead of these, thanksgiving.
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But this know, that any man who is a fornicator, or impure, or covetous, or an idolater,
hath no inheritance in the kingdom of the Meshiha and of Aloha;
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lest any man deceive you with vain words; for because of these cometh the anger of
Aloha upon the sons of disobedience.
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Be not, therefore, participators with them.
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For you were before darkness, but now you are light in our Lord. As the sons of light,
then, so walk.
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For the fruits of the light are in all goodness and rectitude and truth.
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And be discerning of that which is good before our Lord.
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And have no communion with the works of darkness, which have no fruits, but reprove
them.
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For that which in secrecy they do it is execrable even to mention.
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For every thing is exposed by the light, and is revealed, and whatever revealeth is
light.
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Wherefore it is said, Awake thou who sleepest, And arise from the dead, And the Meshiha
shall enlighten thee.
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See then that you walk vigilantly, not as fools,
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but as the wise who redeem their opportunity, because the days are evil.
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On account of this, be not wanting in mind, but understand what is the will of Aloha.
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And be not drunk with wine, in which is intemperance, but be filled with the Spirit.
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And discourse with yourselves with psalms and with hymns and with songs of the Spirit,
singing with your hearts unto the Lord.
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And give thanks always on behalf of every man in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha
unto Aloha the Father.
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And be subject one to another in the love of the Meshiha.
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WIVES, be subject to your husbands as to our Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife, as the Meshiha is the head of the church,
and he himself is the Saviour of the body.
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But as the church is subject to Meshiha, so also (should) wives be unto their husbands
in every thing.
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Husbands, love your wives, as also the Meshiha loved his church, and gave himself
for her,
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that he might sanctify her and purify her in the laver of waters and by the word,
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and that he might constitute her a church unto himself, being glorified, and not having
blemish or wrinkle or any thing like these; but to be holy and spotless.
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So it becometh husbands to love their wives, as their own bodies. For he who his wife
loveth, himself he loveth.
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For no man ever hated his own body, but nourisheth it, and taketh care of it; so also
the Meshiha (taketh care) of the church.
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For we are members of his body, and of his flesh are we, and of his bones.
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Because of this a man leaveth his father and his mother, and cleaveth unto his wife,
and they two become one flesh.
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This mystery is great; but I speak of the Meshiha and of his church.
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Nevertheless let every one of you so love his wife as his own self; but let the wife
reverence her husband.