1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

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1 John 4:11, 1 John 4:11, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:16, 1 Peter 1:15

2and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.

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John 13:34, John 13:34, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 3:14

3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,

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Colossians 3:5, Colossians 3:5, Ephesians 5:5, Ephesians 5:5, Galatians 5:19

4neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor indecent jesting, which are not becoming; but rather giving of thanks.

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Colossians 3:8, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:29, Ephesians 4:29, 1 Thessalonians 5:18

5For of this ye are sure, since ye know that no whore-monger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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Galatians 5:21, Galatians 5:21, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Corinthians 6:9

6Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

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Romans 1:18, Romans 1:18, Matthew 24:4, Matthew 24:4, Colossians 2:8

7Be not therefore partakers with them.

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Revelation 18:4, Revelation 18:4, 1 Timothy 5:22, 1 Timothy 5:22, Ephesians 5:11

8For ye were once darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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John 8:12, John 8:12, 1 John 1:7, 1 John 1:7, Acts 26:18

9—for the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,—

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1 John 3:9, 1 John 3:10, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 3:10, 3 John 1:11

10proving what is acceptable to the Lord;

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Romans 12:1, Romans 12:2, Romans 12:1, Romans 12:2, Psalms 19:14

11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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Romans 13:12, Romans 13:12, 1 Timothy 5:20, 1 Timothy 5:20, 2 John 1:10

12For the things done in secret by them it is a shame even to speak of.

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Ephesians 5:3, Ephesians 5:3, Romans 2:16, Ecclesiastes 12:14, Jeremiah 23:24

13But all things, when reproved, are made manifest by the light; for whatever maketh manifest is light.

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John 3:20, John 3:21, John 3:20, John 3:21, Hosea 2:10

14Wherefore he saith, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light."

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Isaiah 60:1, Isaiah 60:1, Romans 13:11, Romans 13:12, Romans 13:11

15See then that ye walk circumspectly; not as unwise men, but as wise;

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Colossians 4:5, Colossians 4:5, James 3:13, James 3:13, Philippians 1:27

16buying up for yourselves opportunities, because the days are evil.

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Colossians 4:5, Colossians 4:5, Amos 5:13, Amos 5:13, John 12:35

17Wherefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

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Romans 12:2, Romans 12:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Ephesians 5:15

18And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled with the Spirit,

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Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 20:1, Romans 13:13, Romans 13:13, Luke 1:15

19speaking to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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Colossians 3:16, Colossians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 14:26, 1 Corinthians 14:26, Psalms 95:2

20giving thanks always for all things to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Colossians 3:17, Colossians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Hebrews 13:15

21submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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Philippians 2:3, Philippians 2:3, Ephesians 5:24, Ephesians 5:24, Ephesians 5:22

22Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord;

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Colossians 3:18, Colossians 4:1, Colossians 3:18, Colossians 4:1, 1 Peter 3:1

23for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,—he, who is the Saviour of the body.

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1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Corinthians 11:10, 1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Corinthians 11:10, Colossians 1:18

24But as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their husbands in everything.

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Ephesians 5:33, Ephesians 5:33, Colossians 3:20, Titus 2:7, Colossians 3:20

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,

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1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 3:7, Colossians 3:19, Colossians 3:19, Ephesians 5:28

26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of the water in the word;

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John 15:3, John 15:3, Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 10:22, John 17:17

27that he himself might present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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Colossians 1:22, Colossians 1:22, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 1:19

28In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;

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Ephesians 5:25, Genesis 2:21, Genesis 2:24, Ephesians 5:25, Genesis 2:21

29for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ doth the church;

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Ephesians 5:31, Ezekiel 34:14, Ezekiel 34:15, Ephesians 5:31, Ezekiel 34:14

30for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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1 Corinthians 6:15, 1 Corinthians 6:15, 1 Corinthians 12:12, 1 Corinthians 12:27, 1 Corinthians 12:12

31"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."

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Genesis 2:24, Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5, Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:7

32This mystery is a great one; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.

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Revelation 21:2, Revelation 21:2, 2 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Isaiah 54:5

33However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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1 Peter 3:2, 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 3:2, 1 Peter 3:7, Ephesians 5:22