5:2 and live a life of love, just as also the Messiah loved us, indeed, on our behalf gave himself up as an offering, as a slaughtered sacrifice to God with a pleasing fragrance.
5:3 Among you there should not even be mentioned sexual immorality, or any kind of impurity, or greed; these are utterly inappropriate for God’s holy people.
5:4 Also out of place are obscenity and stupid talk or coarse language; instead, you should be giving thanks.
5:5 For of this you can be sure: every sexually immoral, impure or greedy person — that is, every idol-worshipper — has no share in the Kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty talk; for it is because of these things that God’s judgment is coming on those who disobey him.
5:17 So don’t be foolish, but try to understand what the will of the Lord is.
5:18 Don’t get drunk with wine, because it makes you lose control. Instead, keep on being filled with the Spirit —
5:19 sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to each other; sing to the Lord and make music in your heart to him;
5:20 always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
5:21 Submit to one another in fear of the Messiah.
5:22 Wives should submit to their husbands as they do to the Lord;
5:23 because the husband is head of the wife, just as the Messiah, as head of the Messianic Community, is himself the one who keeps the body safe.
5:24 Just as the Messianic Community submits to the Messiah, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
5:25 As for husbands, love your wives, just as the Messiah loved the Messianic Community, indeed, gave himself up on its behalf,
5:26 in order to set it apart for God, making it clean through immersion in the mikveh, so to speak,
5:27 in order to present the Messianic Community to himself as a bride to be proud of, without a spot, wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and without defect.
5:28 This is how husbands ought to love their wives — like their own bodies; for the man who loves his wife is loving himself.
5:29 Why, no one ever hated his own flesh! On the contrary, he feeds it well and takes care of it, just as the Messiah does the Messianic Community,
5:31 “Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one.”
5:32 There is profound truth hidden here, which I say concerns the Messiah and the Messianic Community.
5:33 However, the text also applies to each of you individually: let each man love his wife as he does himself, and see that the wife respects her husband.
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