5:1 Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;
5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling fragrance.
5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not fitting: but rather giving of thanks.
5:5 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever does make manifest is light.
5:14 Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
5:15 See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,
5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
5:17 Therefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
5:18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God, even the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27 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.
5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:
5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31 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.
5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she respect her husband.
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