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| | Eph 5:1 | Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
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| | Eph 5:2 | Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
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| | Eph 5:3 | But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
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| | Eph 5:4 | nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
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| | Eph 5:5 | Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
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| | Eph 5:6 | Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
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| | Eph 5:7 | Therefore don't be partakers with them.
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| | Eph 5:8 | For you 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 Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
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| | Eph 5:10 | proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.
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| | Eph 5:11 | 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 revealed by the light, for everything that is revealed is light.
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| | Eph 5:14 | Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
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| | Eph 5:15 | Therefore watch carefully how you 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 | Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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| | Eph 5:18 | Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
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| | Eph 5:19 | speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord;
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| | Eph 5:20 | giving thanks always concerning 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 subject to your own husbands, as to 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 assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
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| | Eph 5:24 | But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
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| | Eph 5:25 | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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 assembly to himself gloriously, 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 who loves his own wife loves himself.
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| | Eph 5:29 | For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
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| | Eph 5:30 | because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
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| | Eph 5:31 | "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."
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| | Eph 5:32 | This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
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| | Eph 5:33 | Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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