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5:1  So be imitators of God, as beloved children,
5:2  and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
5:3  Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones,
5:4  no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving.
5:5  Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that is, an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6  Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.
5:7  So do not be associated with them.
5:8  For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
5:9  for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.
5:10  Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
5:11  Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them,
5:12  for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret;
5:13  but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
5:14  for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore, it says: “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
5:15  Watch carefully then how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise,
5:16  making the most of the opportunity, because the days are evil.
5:17  Therefore, do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.
5:18  And do not get drunk on wine, in which lies debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
5:19  addressing one another [in] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing to the Lord in your hearts,
5:20  giving thanks always and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.
5:21  Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ.
5:22  Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.
5:23  For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body.
5:24  As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her
5:26  to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
5:27  that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
5:28  So [also] husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
5:29  For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church,
5:30  because we are members of his body.
5:31  “For this reason a man shall leave [his] father and [his] mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
5:32  This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.
5:33  In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.