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5:1  Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children,
5:2  and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
5:3  But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
5:4  Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
5:5  For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6  Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
5:7  Therefore, do not become their partners.
5:8  For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—
5:9  for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth—
5:10  testing what is pleasing to the Lord.
5:11  Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.
5:12  For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.
5:13  Everything exposed by the light is made visible,
5:14  for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
5:15  Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—
5:16  making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
5:17  So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
5:18  And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:
5:19  speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
5:20  giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:21  submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.
5:22  Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
5:23  because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
5:24  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
5:25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
5:26  to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
5:27  He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
5:28  In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
5:29  For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
5:30  since we are members of his body.
5:31  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
5:32  This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
5:33  To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.