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27 neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that steals, steal no more, but rather let him labor, making with his hands that which is good,
that he may have to distribute to him that has need.
29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but if any is good for needful edification, that may
give grace to the hearers.
30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in which you have been sealed for a day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath, and clamor, and blasphemy, be taken away from you, with all
malice.
32 But become kind one toward another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God also in Christ
forgave you.
Ephesians 5
1 Become, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children,
2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to
God for an odor of a sweet smell.
3 But lewdness, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes
saints,
4 and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.
5 For this you know, that no lewd, or unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the
sons of disobedience.
7 Become not therefore partakers with them.
8 For you were formerly darkness, but now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
9 for the fruit of light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth
10 proving what is acceptable to the Lord;
11 and have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
12 For the things done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of; but all things that are reproved
are made manifest by light; for everything that is made manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he says: Awake, thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
15 See, therefore, how exactly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore become not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is revelry; but be filled in Spirit;
19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs; singing and chanting in your heart to
the Lord;
20 giving thanks always to the God and Father for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ:
21 being subject one to another in the fear of Christ.
22 Let wives be subject to their own husbands as to the Lord;
23 for the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, himself the saviour of
the body.
24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,
26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water in the word,
27 that himself might present to himself the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such
thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;
29 for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;
30 for we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall I be
one flesh.
32 This mystery is great; but I speak in regard to Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless, do you each one of you so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she
reverence her husband.
Ephesians 6
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
2 Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
3 that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition
of the Lord.
5 Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your
heart as to Christ;
6 not according to eye-service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the
soul;
7 with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men:
8 knowing that whatever good thing any one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether he be
bond or free.
9 And, you masters, do the same thing towards them, forbearing threatening, knowing that the Lord of
both them and of you is in the heavens, and there is no respect of persons with him.
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil;
12 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the authorities,
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