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\v 1 Therefore be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.
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\v 2 And walk in love, as also Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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\v 3 But there must not be even a suggestion among you of sexual immorality or any kind of impurity or of greed, for these are improper for God's holy people.
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\v 4 Let there be no filthiness, no foolish talk, and no crude jokes—all of which are improper. Instead there should be thanksgiving.
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\v 5 For you can be sure of this, that no sexually immoral, impure, or greedy person—that is, an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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\v 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the anger of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.
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\v 7 Therefore, do not join in with them.
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\v 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
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\v 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth)
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\v 10 and find out what is pleasing to the Lord.
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\v 11 Do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
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\v 12 For it is shameful even to mention the things they do in secret.
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\v 13 But when anything is illuminated by the light, it becomes visible.
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\v 14 For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,
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\q "Awake, you sleeper,
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\q and arise from the dead ones,
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\q and Christ will shine on you."
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\v 15 Look carefully how you live—not as unwise but as wise.
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\v 16 Redeem the time because the days are evil.
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\v 17 Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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\v 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that leads to reckless behavior. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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\v 19 speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart,
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\v 20 always giving thanks for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father,
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\v 21 submitting yourselves to one another in reverence for Christ.
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\v 22 Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord.
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\v 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also is the head of the church, and Christ himself is its savior.
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\v 24 But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives must submit to their husbands in everything.
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\v 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
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\v 26 Christ gave himself for the church so that he might make her holy, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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\v 27 so that he might present her to himself as glorious, without stain or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and without fault.
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\v 28 In the same way husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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\v 29 For no one ever hated his own body, but nourishes and treats it with care, just as Christ nourishes and treats the church with care,
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\v 30 because we are members of his body.
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\v 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
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\v 32 This hidden truth is great—but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
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\v 33 Nevertheless, each of you also must love his own wife as himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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