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Chapter 5
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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 sweetsmelling savour. |
3
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But fornication, 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. |
5
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For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean
person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. |
6
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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 not ye therefore partakers with them. |
8
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For ye were sometimes 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;) |
10
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Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. |
11
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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them. |
12
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For it is a shame even to speak of those things which
are done of them in secret. |
13
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But all things that are reproved are made manifest
by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. |
14
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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise
from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. |
15
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See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools,
but as wise, |
16
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Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
17
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Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what
the will of the Lord is. |
18
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And be not drunk with wine, wherein 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; |
20
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Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the
Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; |
21
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Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of
God. |
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as
unto the Lord. |
23
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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 saviour of the
body. |
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Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so
let the 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: |
30
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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 unto 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. |
