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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God's wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore, do not become their partners. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light-- |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth-- |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10testing what is pleasing to the Lord. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Don't participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Everything exposed by the light is made visible, |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and 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 live--not as unwise people but as wise-- |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16making the most of the time, because the days are evil. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So don't be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And don't get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit: |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21submitting to one another in the fear of 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] | 23because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to 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 for her |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30since we are members of his body. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined 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 talking about Christ and the church. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband. |
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