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# Chapter 5
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1. Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children,
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2. and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
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3. But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
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4. Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.
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5. For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Light versus Darkness
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6. Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God's wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
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7. Therefore, do not become their partners.
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8. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light--
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9. for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth--
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10. testing what is pleasing to the Lord.
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11. Don't participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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12. For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.
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13. Everything exposed by the light is made visible,
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14. for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:
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Get up, sleeper, and
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rise up from the dead,
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and Christ will shine on you.
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Consistency in the Christian Life
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15. Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk--not as unwise people but as wise--
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16. making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
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17. So don't be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
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18. And don't get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:
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19. speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord,
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20. giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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21. submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.
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Wives and Husbands
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22. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
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23. because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
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24. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
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25. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
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26. to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
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27. He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
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28. In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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29. For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
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30. since we are members of his body.
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31. <b class="quote">For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,* <b class="quote">and the two will become one flesh.*
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32. This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.
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33. To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
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