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| | Eph 5:1 | Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
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| | Eph 5:2 | And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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| | Eph 5:3 | But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints.
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| | Eph 5:4 | Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving.
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| | Eph 5:5 | Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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| | Eph 5:6 | Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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| | Eph 5:7 | Therefore do not associate with them,
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| | Eph 5:8 | for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
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| | Eph 5:9 | (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
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| | Eph 5:10 | and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
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| | Eph 5:11 | Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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| | Eph 5:12 | For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;
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| | Eph 5:13 | but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light.
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| | Eph 5:14 | Therefore it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
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| | Eph 5:15 | Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,
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| | Eph 5:16 | making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
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| | Eph 5:17 | Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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| | Eph 5:18 | And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
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| | Eph 5:19 | addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart,
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| | Eph 5:20 | always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.
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| | Eph 5:21 | Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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| | Eph 5:22 | Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
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| | Eph 5:23 | For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
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| | Eph 5:24 | As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
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| | Eph 5:25 | Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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| | Eph 5:26 | that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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| | Eph 5:27 | that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
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| | Eph 5:28 | Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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| | Eph 5:29 | For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does 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 reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
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| | Eph 5:32 | This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
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| | Eph 5:33 | however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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