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* Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children , * and to lead lives of love , just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you , an offering and sacrifice unto God , for you , an offering and sacrifice unto God , for "an odor of sweetness ." * As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust , it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them ; * so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting . Such words become you not , but rather thanksgiving . * For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry , has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God . * Let no man deceive you with empty arguments , for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience ; * therefore do not become sharers with them . * For you were once darkness , but are now in the Lord . * Lead the life of children of light , for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth . * Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord , * and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness , but rather expose them . * For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret ; * but all these things , when exposed , are by the light made manifest , and what is made manifest is light . * For this reason it is said , "Awake , thou sleeper ! Arise from the dead ; And Christ shall shine upon thee !" * See to it , then , that you carry on your life carefully ; not as foolish , but as wise men . * Buy up opportunity , for the times are evil . * For this reason do not be thoughtless , but learn to know what the Lords will is . * Do not be drunk with wine , in which is riotous living , but drink deep in the Spirit , * when you talk together ; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs , singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord ; * and at all times for all things give thanks to God , the Father , in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ . * Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ . * Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord , * because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church , his body , which he saves . * But as the church submits itself to Christ , so also wives to their husbands in everything . * Husbands , love your wives , just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her , * in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism , he might sanctify her by his word , * so as to present her to himself , the church glorified , without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish ; but on the contrary holy and faultless . * That is how husbands ought to love their wives , as they love their own bodies . He who loves his wife loves himself . * For no man ever yet hated his own flesh , but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church ; * for we are members of his body . * For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother , and shall cleave unto his wife , and they two shall be one flesh . * There is a deep mystery here - I am speaking of Christ and his church . * But as for you individually , you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself ; and the wife , on her part , should reverence her husband .

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