✧1Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; ✧2and 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. ✧3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; ✧4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks. ✧5For 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. ✧6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. ✧7Be not ye therefore partakers with them; ✧8for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
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✧9(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
✧17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
✧18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
✧19speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
✧20giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
✧21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
✧22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
✧23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.
✧24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.
✧25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
✧26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
✧27that 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.
✧28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
✧29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;