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 <div class="label">5</div><div class="m"> 1Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, 2and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us,&#160; # 5:2 2Th 2:13; Ti 2:14 a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3But sexual immorality&#160; # 5:3 1Th 4:3 and any impurity&#160; # 5:3 1Th 4:7 or greed&#160; # 5:3 Lk 12:15; Rm 1:29; Eph 4:19; Col 3:5; 1Th 2:5; 2Pt 2:3,14 should not even be heard of&#160; # 5:3 Or be named among you, as is proper for saints. 4Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 5For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral&#160; # 5:5 1Co 5:9 or impure&#160; # 5:5 2Co 6:17 or greedy&#160; # 5:5 1Co 5:10&#8211;11; 6:10 person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom&#160; # 5:5 Mk 1:15 of Christ and of God.</div><div class="s1">Light versus Darkness</div><div class="m"> 6Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God&#8217;s wrath&#160; # 5:6 Rm 2:5; Rv 6:16 is coming on the disobedient&#160; # 5:6 Lit sons of disobedience because of these things. 7Therefore, do not become their partners. 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light&#160; # 5:8 Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46 in the Lord. Walk as children of light&#160; # 5:8 Is 2:5; Lk 16:8; Jn 12:35&#8211;36 &#160;#&#8212;&#160;# 9for the fruit of the light&#160; # 5:9 Other mss read fruit of the Spirit consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth&#160; # 5:9 Eph 5:17 &#160;#&#8212;&#160;# 10testing&#160; # 5:10 Rm 12:2 what is pleasing&#160; # 5:10 Lk 18:18 to the Lord. 11Don&#8217;t participate in the fruitless&#160; # 5:11 Gl 5:22; Ti 3:14 works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. 13Everything exposed by the light is made visible,&#160; # 5:13 1Jn 1:2 14for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:</div><div class="qc">Get up, sleeper,&#160; # 5:14 Pr 6:4 and&#160;rise&#160;up from&#160;the&#160;dead,&#160; # 5:14 Jn 5:25</div><div class="qc">and Christ will&#160;shine on&#160;you.&#160; # 5:14 Is 26:19; 51:17; 52:1; 60:1; Mal 4:2; Lk 1:78&#8211;79; Rm 13:11</div><div class="s1">Consistency in the Christian Life</div><div class="m"> 15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk&#160;#&#8212;&#160;#not as unwise people but as wise&#160;#&#8212;&#160;# 16making the most of the time,&#160; # 5:16 Lit buying back the time,# 5:16 Col 4:5 because the days are evil. 17So don&#8217;t be foolish, but understand&#160; # 5:17 Jr 31:31&#8211;34; Ezk 36:26&#8211;27; Rm 12:2; Php 1:9&#8211;10; 1Th 5:21 what the Lord&#8217;s will&#160; # 5:17 Ps 143:10; Pr 16:9; Gl 1:4; Eph 1:9 is. 18And don&#8217;t get drunk&#160; # 5:18 Lk 12:45; Jn 2:10; 1Th 5:7; Rv 17:2 with wine,&#160; # 5:18 Gn 9:21; Dt 7:13; Ps 4:7; Pr 3:10; Lk 5:37 which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:&#160; # 5:18 Lk 1:15; Ac 13:52 19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, 20giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21submitting to one another in the fear of Christ.&#160; # 5:18&#8211;21 Col 3:16&#8211;17; 1Pt 1:17</div><div class="s1">Wives and Husbands</div><div class="m"> 22Wives,&#160; # 5:22 1Pt 3:1 submit&#160; # 5:22 Other mss omit submit,# 5:22 Gn 3:16; 1Co 11:3,7&#8211;9,11&#8211;12; Col 3:18; Ti 2:4&#8211;5; 1Pt 3:1&#8211;6 to your husbands&#160; # 5:22 1Pt 3:1 as to the Lord, 23because the husband is the head of the wife&#160; # 5:23 1Co 11:3 as Christ is the head&#160; # 5:23 Col 2:10 of the church. He is the Savior of the body.&#160; # 5:23 Col 3:18&#8211;4:1 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives,&#160; # 5:25 Col 3:19; 1Pt 3:7 just as Christ loved&#160; # 5:25 Jn 3:16; 1Co 13:1; 2Th 2:13 the church and gave himself&#160; # 5:25 Ti 2:14 for her 26to make her holy, cleansing&#160; # 5:26 Or having cleansed her with the washing of water by the word. 27He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.&#160; # 5:27 Jd 24 28In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30since we are members of his body.&#160; # 5:30 Other mss add and of his flesh and of his bones 31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, &#160; # 5:31 1Pt 3:1 and the two will become one flesh. &#160; # 5:31 Gn 2:24,# 5:31 Gn 2:24 32This mystery&#160; # 5:32 1Co 2:7 is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.</div>
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Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us,  a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But sexual immorality  and any impurity  or greed  should not even be heard of  among you, as is proper for saints. Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 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.

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath  is coming on the disobedient  because of these things. Therefore, do not become their partners. For you were once darkness, but now you are light  in the Lord. Walk as children of light   #— # for the fruit of the light  consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth   #— # testing  what is pleasing  to the Lord. Don’t participate in the fruitless  works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret. Everything exposed by the light is made visible,  for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:
Get up, sleeper,  and rise up from the dead, 
and Christ will shine on you. 

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk #— #not as unwise people but as wise #— # making the most of the time,  , because the days are evil. So don’t be foolish, but understand  what the Lord’s will  is. And don’t get drunk  with wine,  which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:  speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always 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 husbands  as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife  as Christ is the head  of the church. He is the Savior of the body.  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives,  just as Christ loved  the church and gave himself  for her to make her holy, cleansing  her with the washing of water by the word. He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.  In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since 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 profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 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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