Ephesians:5

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* Become ye , therefore , imitators of God , as children beloved , * And walk in loveeven as , the Christ also , loved you , and delivered himself up in your behalf , an offering and sacrifice unto God , for a fragrance of sweet smell . * But , fornication , and all impurity , or covetousness , let it not be named among youeven as becometh saints ; * And shamelessness and foolish talking , or jesting , which things are beneath you , but , rather , giving of thanks ; * For , this , ye know , if ye take notethat no fornicator , or impure or greedy person , who is an idolater , hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God . * Let no one be deceiving you with empty words ; for , because of these things , is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy : * Do not , then , become co-partners with them ; * For ye were , at one time , darkness , but , now , are ye light in the Lord , as children of light , be walking , * For , the fruit of the light , is in all goodness , and righteousness , and truth , * Putting to the test what is well-pleasing unto the Lord ; * And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness , but , rather , be even administering reproof ; * For , of the secret things which are brought to pass by them , it is , shameful , even to speak ! * All things , however , when reproved by the light , become manifest , for , all that of itself maketh manifest , is , light ; * Wherefore it saith Up ! thou sleeper , and arise from among the dead , and the Christ will shine upon thee . * Be taking heed , therefore , exactly how ye are walking , not as unwise , but as wise , * Buying out for yourselves the opportunity , because , the days , are evil ; * For this cause , do not become foolish , but have discernment as to what is the will of the Lord ; * And be not getting drunk with wine , in which is dissoluteness , but be getting filled in Spirit ; * Speaking to yourselves , with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs ; singing , and striking the strings , with your heart unto the Lord ; * Giving thanks , always , for all things , in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ , unto your God and Father ; * Submitting yourselves one to another in reverence of Christ , * Ye wives , unto your own husbands , as unto the Lord , * Because , a husband , is the head of his wife , as , the Christ also , is the head of the assembly , he , being the saviour of the body , * Nevertheless , as , the assembly , submitteth herself unto the Christ , so , the wives , unto their husbands , in everything : * Ye husbands , be loving your wives , even as , the Christ also , loved the assembly , and delivered , himself , up in her behalf , * That , her , he might sanctify , having purified with the bath of water , in declaration , * That , he , might present , unto himself , the assembly , all glorious , not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things , but that she should be holy and blameless ; * So , ought the husbands to be loving their own wives , as their own bodies , he that loveth his own wife , loveth himself , * No one , in fact , ever yet hated , his own flesh , but nourisheth and cherisheth it , even as , the Christ , the assembly , * Because , members , are we of his body ; * For this cause , will a man leave his father and his mother , and will cleave unto his wife , and , they two , shall become , one flesh . * This sacred secret , is , great , I , however , am speaking as to Christ and as to the assembly ; * Nevertheless , ye also , do ye , individually , each man be so loving , his own wife , as himself , and , the wife ,

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