58 lines
3.3 KiB
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58 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
Living in the Light
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# Chapter 5
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1. Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.
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2. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
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3. Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people.
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4. Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes--these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.
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5. You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
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6. Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.
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7. Don't participate in the things these people do.
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8. For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!
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9. For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
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10. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.
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11. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.
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12. It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.
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13. But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them,
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14. for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,
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"Awake, O sleeper,
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rise up from the dead,
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and Christ will give you light."
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Living by the Spirit's Power
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15. So be careful how you live. Don't live like fools, but like those who are wise.
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16. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
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17. Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
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18. Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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19. singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
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20. And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Spirit-Guided Relationships: Wives and Husbands
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21. And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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22. For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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23. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.
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24. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
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25. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her
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26. to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word.
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27. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
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28. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.
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29. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.
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30. And we are members of his body.
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31. As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."
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32. This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
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33. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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