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[1] Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

[2] and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

[3] But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

[4] Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

[5] For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

[6] Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

[7] Therefore do not be partakers with them.

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

[9] for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

[10] Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

[11] Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

[12] For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

[13] But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

[14] So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

[15] Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

[16] redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

[17] Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

[18] Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

[19] Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

[20] always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[21] Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

[22] Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

[23] For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

[24] Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

[25] Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

[26] to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

[27] and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

[28] In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

[29] Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

[30] For we are members of His body.

[31] “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

[32] This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

[33] Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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