11Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
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And 2walk in love, 3as Christ loved us and 4gave himself up for us, a 5fragrant 6offering and sacrifice to God.
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But 7sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness 8must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
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Let there be 9no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, 10which are out of place, but instead 11let there be thanksgiving.
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For you may be sure of this, that 12everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (13that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
614Let no one 15deceive you with empty words, for because of these things 16the wrath of God comes upon 17the sons of disobedience.
2244Wives, 45submit to your own husbands, 46as to the Lord.
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For 47the husband is the head of the wife even as 48Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is 49himself its Savior.
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit 50in everything to their husbands.
2551Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and 52gave himself up for her,
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that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by 53the washing of water 54with the word,
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so 55that he might present the church to himself in splendor, 56without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.a
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In the same way 57husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,