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Become, then, followers of God, as beloved children,
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and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a refreshing fragrance,
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and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, do not let it even be named among you, as is proper to holy ones;
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also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting—the things not fit—but rather thanksgiving;
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for you know this, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
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Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things comes the anger of God on the sons of the disobedience;
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do not become, then, partakers with them,
Children of Light
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for you were once darkness, and now light in the LORD; walk as children of light,
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for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,
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proving what is well-pleasing to the LORD;
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and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,
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for it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret,
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and all the things reproved by the light are revealed, for everything that is revealed is light;
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for this reason it says, “Arouse yourself, you who are sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ will shine on you.”
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See, then, how exactly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
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redeeming the time, because the days are evil;
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do not become fools because of this, but—understanding what [is] the will of the LORD,
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and do not be drunk with wine, in which is wastefulness, but be filled in 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,
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always giving thanks for all things, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father,
Wives and Husbands
(Song of Solomon 1:1–17; 1 Peter 3:1–7)
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subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
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The wives: [subject yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the LORD,
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because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the Assembly, and He is Savior of the body,
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but even as the Assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives [subject] to their own husbands in everything.
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The husbands: love your own wives, as the Christ also loved the Assembly, and gave Himself for it,
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that He might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying,
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that He might present the Assembly to Himself in glory, having no spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
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so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife—he loves himself;
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for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and nurtures it, as also the LORD—the Assembly,
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because we are members of His body, [[ of His flesh, and of His bones.]]
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“For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh”;
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this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the Assembly;
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but you also, everyone in particular—let each so love his own wife as himself, and the wife—that she may revere the husband.
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