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Ephesians 5:16-26
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Ephesians 5:16-26
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Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
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Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
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Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
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And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.
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As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
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For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her
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to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.
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Greek washed by water with the word.
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