Chapter 5

  Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;  

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  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.  

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  But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;  

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  Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.  

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  For this ye know, that no lewd, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.  

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  Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.  

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  Be ye not therefore partakers with them.  

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  For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye 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 acceptable to the Lord.  

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  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.  

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  For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.  

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  But all things that are reproved, are made manifest by the light: for whatever doth make manifest is light.  

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  Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.  

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  See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,  

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  Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  

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  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.  

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  And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;  

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  Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,  

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  Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;  

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  Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.  

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  Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  

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  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the Savior of the body.  

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  Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands in every thing.  

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  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  

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  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,  

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  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.  

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  So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.  

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  For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:  

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

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  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.  

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  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.  

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  Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife see that she reverence her husband.  

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