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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 live in love, just 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 among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting--all of which are out of character--but rather thanksgiving. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes 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 at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the 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] | 10trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But all things being exposed by the light are made evident. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: "Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore be very careful how you live--not as unwise but as wise, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord's will is. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, 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 in your hearts to the Lord, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21and submitting 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] | 23because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church--he himself being the savior of the body. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24But 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 for her |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27so that he may present the church to himself as glorious--not having a 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] | 29For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also 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] | 31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32This mystery is great--but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. |
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