Ephesians 5

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice to God, a fragrant aroma. But sexual immorality and every kind of impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints, nor obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For you know this for certain: no sexually immoral or impure person, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become fellow participants with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light —for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth— discerning what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not share in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them, for it is shameful even to speak of the things they do in secret. But all things exposed by the light become visible, for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,
“Awake, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” So pay careful attention to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. And do not get drunk with wine, in which there is reckless excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, himself the Savior of the body. But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her, so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he himself might present the church to himself in glory, without spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and blameless. In this way husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself, for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless, each one of you should love his own wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.

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