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Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children
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And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour
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But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh saints
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Neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks
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For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God
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Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience
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Be not ye therefore partakers with them
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For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light
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For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth
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Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord
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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them
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For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret
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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light
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Wherefore he saith Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light
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See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise
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Redeeming the time because the days are evil
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Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is
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And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit
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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord
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Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
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Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God
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Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord
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For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the saviour of the body
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Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing
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Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it
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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
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That he might present it 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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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies He that loveth his wife loveth himself
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For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the church
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For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh
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This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the church
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Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband