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Ephesians 5
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Chapter 5
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Try, then, to imitate God as children of his that he loves
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and follow Christ loving as he loved you, giving himself up in our place as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.[*a]
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Among you there must be not even a mention of fornication or impurity in any of its forms, or promiscuity: this would hardly become the saints!
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There must be no coarseness, or salacious talk and jokes-all this is wrong for you; raise your voices in thanksgiving instead.
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For you can be quite certain that nobody who actually indulges in fornication or impurity or promiscuity-which is worshipping a false god-can inherit anything of the kingdom of God.
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Do not let anyone deceive you with empty arguments: it is for this loose living that God’s anger comes down on those who rebel against him.
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Make sure that you are not included with them.
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You were darkness once, but now you are light in the Lord; be like children of light,
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for the effects of the light are seen in complete goodness and right living and truth.
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Try to discover what the Lord wants of you,
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having nothing to do with the futile works of darkness but exposing them by contrast.
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The things which are done in secret are things that ashamed even to speak of;
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but anything exposed by the light will be illuminated
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and anything illuminated turns into light. That is why it is said:[*b] Wake up from your sleep, rise from the dead, Christ will shine on you.
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So be very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless people.
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This may be a wicked age, but you redeem it.
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And do not be thoughtless but recognise what is the will of the Lord.
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Do not drug yourselves with wine, this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit.
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Sing the words and tunes of the psalms and hymns when you are together, and go on singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts,
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so that always and everywhere you are giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The morals of the home
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Give way to one another in obedience to Christ.
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Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord,
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since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife;
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and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything.
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Husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her
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to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her in water with a form of words,
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so that when he took her to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and faultless.
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In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love his wife is for him to love himself.
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A man never hates his own body, but he feeds it and looks after it; and that is the way Christ treats the Church,
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because it is his body-and we are its living parts.
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For this reason, a man must leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one body.[*c]
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This mystery has many implications; but I am saying it applies to Christ and the
Church.
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To sum up; you too, each one of you, must love his wife as he loves himself; and let every wife respect her husband.
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