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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore do not be partakers with them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Test and prove what pleases the Lord. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30For we are members of His body. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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.” |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. |
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