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17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand 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 Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,
19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
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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 And give thanks for everything to God the Father 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 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 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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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 submits to Christ, so you wives should submit 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 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.
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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
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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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