✧1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; ✧2And 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. ✧3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; ✧4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. ✧5For 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. ✧6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. ✧7Be not ye therefore partakers with them. ✧8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
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✧9(For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
✧17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].
✧18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
✧19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
✧20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
✧21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
✧22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
✧23For 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.
✧24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.
✧25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
✧26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
✧27That 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.
✧28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
✧29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
✧30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
✧31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
✧32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
✧33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.