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17 So do not be foolish but learn what the Lord wants you to do.
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
18 Do not be drunk with wine, which will ruin you, but be filled with the Spirit.
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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,
19 Speak to each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord.
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speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord,
20 Always give thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21 Yield to obey each other because you respect Christ.
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, yield to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,
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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. And he is the Savior of the body, which is the church.
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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.
24 As the church yields to Christ, so you wives should yield to your husbands in everything.
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26 to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.
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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 He died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other wrong thing in it.
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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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