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1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,
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1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
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2 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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2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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3 But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
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3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.
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4 and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
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4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
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5 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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5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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6 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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6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
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7 Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;
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7 Therefore do not be partners with them.
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8 for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord; walk as children of light,
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8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light
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9 (for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
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9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)
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10 proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
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10 and find out what pleases the Lord.
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11 and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [them],
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11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
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12 for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.
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12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
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13 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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13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
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14 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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14 for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
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15 See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,
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15 Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise,
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16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
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17 For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is] the will of the Lord.
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17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
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18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
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18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
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19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;
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19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,
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20 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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20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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21 submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.
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21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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22 Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
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22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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23 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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23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
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24 But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
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24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
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25 Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
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25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
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26 in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word,
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26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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27 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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27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
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28 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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28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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29 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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29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church--
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30 for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]
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30 for we are members of his body.
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31 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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31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
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32 This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.
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32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church.
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33 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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33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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