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5:1  So you should be imitators of God, like dear children.
5:2  Conduct yourselves in love, just as the Messiah loved us, and gave himself for us, as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.
5:3  As for fornication, uncleanness of any kind, or greed: you shouldn’t even mention them! You are, after all, God’s holy people.
5:4  Shameful, stupid or coarse conversations are quite out of place. Instead, there should be thanksgiving.
5:5  You should know this, you see: no fornicator, nobody who practices uncleanness, no greedy person (in other words, an idolator), has any inheritance in the Messiah’s kingdom, or in God’s.
5:6  Don’t let anyone fool you with empty words. It’s because of these things, you see, that God’s wrath is coming on people who are disobedient.
5:7  So don’t share in their practices.
5:8  After all, at one time you were darkness, but now, in the Lord, you are light! So behave as children of light.
5:9  Light has its fruit, doesn’t it, in everything that’s good, and just, and true.
5:10  Think through what’s going to be pleasing to the Lord. Work it out.
5:11  So, then, don’t get involved in the works of darkness, which all come to nothing. Instead, expose them!
5:12  The things they do in secret, you see, are shameful even to talk about.
5:13  But everything becomes visible when it’s exposed to the light,
5:14  since everything that is visible is light. That’s why it says: Wake up, you sleeper! Rise up from the dead! The Messiah will shine on you!
5:15  So take special care how you conduct yourselves. Don’t be unwise, but be wise.
5:16  Make use of any opportunity you have, because these are wicked times we live in.
5:17  So don’t be foolish; rather, understand what the Lord’s will is.
5:18  And don’t get drunk with wine; that way lies dissipation. Rather, be filled with the spirit!
5:19  Speak to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting in your heart to the Lord,
5:20  always giving thanks for everything to God the father in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
5:21  Be subject to one another out of reverence for the Messiah.
5:22  Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
5:23  The man, you see, is the head of the woman, just as the Messiah, too, is head of the church. He is himself the savior of the body.
5:24  But, just as the church is subject to the Messiah, in the same way women should be subject in everything to their husbands.
5:25  Husbands, love your wives, as the Messiah loved the church, and gave himself for it,
5:26  so that he could make it holy, cleansing it by washing it with water through the word.
5:27  He did this in order to present the church to himself in brilliant splendor, without a single spot or blemish or anything of the kind—that it might be holy and without blame.
5:28  That’s how husbands ought to love their own wives, just as they love their own bodies. Someone who loves his wife loves himself.
5:29  After all, nobody ever hates his own flesh: he feeds it and takes care of it, just as the Messiah does with the church,
5:30  because we are parts of his body.
5:31  “That’s why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one flesh.”
5:32  The hidden meaning in this saying is very deep; but I am reading it as referring to the Messiah and the church.
5:33  Anyway, each one of you must love your wife as you love yourself; and the wife must see that she respects her husband.