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| | Eph 5:1 | Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
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| | Eph 5:2 | and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
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| | Eph 5:3 | But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
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| | Eph 5:4 | nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
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| | Eph 5:5 | For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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| | Eph 5:6 | Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
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| | Eph 5:7 | Be not ye therefore partakers with them;
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| | Eph 5:8 | For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
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| | Eph 5:9 | (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
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| | Eph 5:10 | proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
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| | Eph 5:11 | and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
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| | Eph 5:12 | for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.
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| | Eph 5:13 | But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.
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| | Eph 5:14 | Wherefore `he' saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
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| | Eph 5:15 | Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
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| | Eph 5:16 | redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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| | Eph 5:17 | Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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| | Eph 5:18 | And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
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| | Eph 5:19 | speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
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| | Eph 5:20 | giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
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| | Eph 5:21 | subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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| | Eph 5:22 | Wives, `be in subjection' unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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| | Eph 5:23 | For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, `being' himself the saviour of the body.
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| | Eph 5:24 | But as the church is subject to Christ, so `let' the wives also `be' to their husbands in everything.
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| | Eph 5:25 | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
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| | Eph 5:26 | that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
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| | Eph 5:27 | that he might present the church to himself a glorious `church', not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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| | Eph 5:28 | Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
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| | Eph 5:29 | for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
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| | Eph 5:30 | because we are members of his body.
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| | Eph 5:31 | For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
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| | Eph 5:32 | This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
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| | Eph 5:33 | Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and `let' the wife `see' that she fear her husband.
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