Chapter 5

  Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.  

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  Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.  

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  But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;  

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  nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.  

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  Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has 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, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.  

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  Don't be therefore partakers with them.  

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  For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,  

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  for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,  

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  proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.  

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  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 revealed by the light, for everything that is revealed is light.  

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  Therefore he says, 'Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.'  

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  Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;  

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  redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  

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  Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.  

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  Don't be drunken with wine, in which is an abandoned life, but be filled with the Spirit,  

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  speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in 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, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  

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  For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.  

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  But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.  

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  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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 assembly to himself gloriously, 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 who loves his own wife loves himself.  

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  For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the assembly;  

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  because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.  

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  'For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.'  

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  This mystery is great, but I speak in regard of Christ and of the assembly.  

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  Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.  

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