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Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; |
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and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell. |
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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; |
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nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. |
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For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. |
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Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. |
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Be not ye therefore partakers with them; |
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For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light |
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(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), |
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proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; |
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and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them; |
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for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. |
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But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. |
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Wherefore {cf15i he} saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. |
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Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; |
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redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
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Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. |
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And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; |
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speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; |
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giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; |
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subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. |
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Wives, {cf15i be in subjection} unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. |
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For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, {cf15i being} himself the saviour of the body. |
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But as the church is subject to Christ, so {cf15i let} the wives also {cf15i be} to their husbands in everything. |
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; |
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that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, |
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that he might present the church to himself a glorious {cf15i church}, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. |
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Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: |
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for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church; |
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because we are members of his body. |
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh. |
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This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. |
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Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and {cf15i let} the wife {cf15i see} that she fear her husband. |
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