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1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
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Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:
2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.
3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
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But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
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Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.
5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.
7 Therefore do not become partners with them;
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Be ye not therefore partakers with them.
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
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For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.
9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
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For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:
10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
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Proving what is well pleasing to God.
11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them.
12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
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For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,
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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for all that is made manifest is light.
14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
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Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.
15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
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See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,
16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
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But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will of God.
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
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And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,
19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:
20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father:
21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
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Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
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Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:
26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:
27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
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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.
28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
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For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:
30 because we are members of his body.
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Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.
31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
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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.
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
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This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the church.
33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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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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