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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person 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 God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore do not be partners with them. |
| 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] | 9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and find out what pleases the Lord. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12It 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--and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14This is why it is said: "Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16making the most of every opportunity, 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 debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart 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 yourselves to your own husbands as you do 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 make her holy, 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 radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28In this 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] | 29After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, 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 is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. |
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