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17 Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will of God.
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye 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 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody 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 Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father:
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always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21 Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Let women be subject to their husbands, as 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. He is the saviour of his body.
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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 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.
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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 also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:
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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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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.
28 So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:
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After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—
30 Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.
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for we are members of his body.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.
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“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32 This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the church.
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This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.
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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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