Ephesians:5

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* Be ye therefore imitators of God , as beloved children , * and walk in love , even as the Christ loved us , and delivered himself up for us , an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour . * But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust , let it not be even named among you , as it becomes saints ; * and filthiness and foolish talking , or jesting , which are not convenient ; but rather thanksgiving . * For this ye are [well ] informed of , knowing that no fornicator , or unclean person , or person of unbridled lust , who is an idolater , has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God . * Let no one deceive you with vain words , for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience . * Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them ; * for ye were once darkness , but now light in [the ] Lord ; walk as children of light , * (for the fruit of the light [is ] in all goodness and righteousness and truth ,) * proving what is agreeable to the Lord ; * and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness , but rather also reprove [them ], * for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say . * But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest ; for that which makes everything manifest is light . * Wherefore he says , Wake up , [thou ] that sleepest , and arise up from among the dead , and the Christ shall shine upon thee . * See therefore how ye walk carefully , not as unwise but as wise , * redeeming the time , because the days are evil . * For this reason be not foolish , but understanding what [is ] the will of the Lord . * And be not drunk with wine , in which is debauchery ; but be filled with the Spirit , * speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs , singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord ; * giving thanks at all times for all things to him [who is ] God and [the ] Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , * submitting yourselves to one another in [the ] fear of Christ . * Wives , [submit yourselves ] to your own husbands , as to the Lord , * for a husband is head of the wife , as also the Christ [is ] head of the assembly . He [is ] Saviour of the body . * But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ , so also wives to their own husbands in everything . * Husbands , love your own wives , even as the Christ also loved the assembly , and has delivered himself up for it , * in order that he might sanctify it , purifying [it ] by the washing of water by [the ] word , * that he might present the assembly to himself glorious , having no spot , or wrinkle , or any of such things ; but that it might be holy and blameless . * So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies : he that loves his own wife loves himself . * For no one has ever hated his own flesh , but nourishes and cherishes it , even as also the Christ the assembly : * for we are members of his body ; [we are of his flesh , and of his bones .] * Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother , and shall be united to his wife , and the two shall be one flesh . * This mystery is great , but I speak as to Christ , and as to the assembly . * But ye also , every one of you , let each so love his own wife as himself ; but as to the wife [I speak ] that she may fear the husband .

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