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5:1  Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,
5:2  and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
5:3  But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;
5:4  nor filthiness and foolish talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
5:5  For this you know with certainty, that no one sexually immoral or impure or greedy, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
5:6  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
5:7  Therefore do not be partakers with them,
5:8  for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
5:9  (for the fruit of that light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
5:10  trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
5:11  And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them.
5:12  For it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
5:13  But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
5:14  For this reason it says, “Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you.”
5:15  Therefore look carefully how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
5:16  redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
5:17  On account of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
5:18  And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
5:19  speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
5:20  always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
5:21  and being subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
5:22  Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
5:24  But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
5:25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
5:26  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
5:27  that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be holy and blameless.
5:28  So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
5:29  for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
5:30  because we are members of His body.
5:31  For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
5:32  This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
5:33  Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.