103 lines
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103 lines
3.5 KiB
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## Be Imitators of God
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Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,
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and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
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###### 3
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But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;
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_nor_ filthiness and foolish talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
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For this you know with certainty, that no one sexually immoral or impure or greedy, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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Therefore do not be partakers with them,
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for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
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(for the fruit of that light _consists_ in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
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trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
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And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them.
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For it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
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But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
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For this reason it says, "Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you."
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Therefore look carefully how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
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redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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On account of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
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speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
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always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
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and being subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
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## Wives and Husbands
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Wives, _be subject_ to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself _being_ the Savior of the body.
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But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives _ought to be_ to their husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
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so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be holy and blameless.
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So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
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for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also _does_ the church,
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because we are members of His body.
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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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This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
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Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must _see to it_ that she respects her husband.
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