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1 Therefore, imitate God like dearly loved children.
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1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
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2 Live your life with love, following the example of Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us. He was a sacrificial offering that smelled sweet to God.
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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 Sexual immorality, and any kind of impurity or greed, shouldn't even be mentioned among you, which is right for holy persons.
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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 Obscene language, silly talk, or vulgar jokes aren't acceptable for believers. Instead, there should be 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 Because you know for sure that persons who are sexually immoral, impure, or greedy—which happens when things become gods—those persons won't inherit the kingdom of 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 Nobody should deceive you with stupid ideas. God's anger comes down on those who are disobedient because of this kind of thing.
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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 So you shouldn't have anything to do with them.
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7 Therefore do not be partners with them.
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8 You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord, so live your life 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 Light produces fruit that consists of every sort of goodness, justice, 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 Therefore, test everything to see what's pleasing to the Lord,
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10 and find out what pleases the Lord.
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11 and don't participate in the unfruitful actions of darkness. Instead, you should reveal the truth about 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 It's embarrassing to even talk about what certain persons do in secret.
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12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
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13 But everything exposed to the light is revealed by the light.
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13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
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14 Everything that is revealed by the light is light. Therefore, it says, Wake up, sleeper!Get up from the dead,and Christ will shine on you.
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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 So be careful to live your life wisely, not foolishly.
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15 Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise,
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16 Take advantage of every opportunity because these are evil times.
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16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
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17 Because of this, don't be ignorant, but understand the Lord's will.
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17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
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18 Don't get drunk on wine, which produces depravity. Instead, be filled with the Spirit in the following ways:
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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 speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; sing and make music to the Lord in your hearts;
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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 always give thanks to God the Father for everything 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 and submit to each other out of respect for Christ.
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21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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22 For example, wives should submit to their husbands as if to the Lord.
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22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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23 A husband is the head of his wife like Christ is head of the church, that is, the savior 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 So wives submit to their husbands in everything like the church submits to Christ.
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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 As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.
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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 He did this to make her holy by washing her in a bath of water with 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 He did this to present himself with a splendid church, one without any sort of stain or wrinkle on her clothes, but rather one that is 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 That's how husbands ought to love their wives—in the same way as they do their own bodies. Anyone who loves his 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 No one ever hates his own body, but feeds it and takes care of it just like Christ does for the church
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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 because we are parts of his body.
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30 for we are members of his body.
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31 This is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two of them will be one body.
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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 Marriage is a significant allegory, and I'm applying it to Christ and the church.
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32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church.
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33 In any case, as for you individually, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and wives should respect their husbands.
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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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