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[1]Be therefore imitators of Aloha, as beloved children;
[2]And walk in love, as the Meshiha also loved us, and delivered himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to Aloha of a fragrant smell.
[3]BUT fornication and all uncleanness and covetousness, let them not be even heard among you, as it becometh the saints;
[4]Neither filthiness, nor words of folly, or of jeering, or fables, which are not necessary, but, instead of these, thanksgiving.
[5]But this know, that any man who is a fornicator, or impure, or covetous, or an idolater, hath no inheritance in the kingdom of the Meshiha and of Aloha;
[6]Lest any man deceive you with vain words; for because of these cometh the anger of Aloha upon the sons of disobedience.
[7]Be not, therefore, participators with them.
[8]For you were before darkness, but now you are light in our Lord. As the sons of light, then, so walk.
[9]For the fruits of the light are in all goodness and rectitude and truth.
[10]And be discerning of that which is good before our Lord.
[11]And have no communion with the works of darkness, which have no fruits, but reprove them.
[12]For that which in secrecy they do it is execrable even to mention.
[13]For every thing is exposed by the light, and is revealed, and whatever revealeth is light.
[14]Wherefore it is said, Awake thou who sleepest, and arise from the dead, and the Meshiha shall enlighten thee.
[15]See then that you walk vigilantly, not as fools,
[16]But as the wise who redeem their opportunity, because the days are evil.
[17]On account of this, be not wanting in mind, but understand what is the will of Aloha.
[18]And be not drunk with wine, in which is intemperance, but be filled with the Spirit.
[19]And discourse with yourselves with psalms and with hymns and with songs of the Spirit, singing with your hearts unto the Lord.
[20]And give thanks always on behalf of every man in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha unto Aloha the Father.
[21]And be subject one to another in the love of the Meshiha.
[22]WIVES, be subject to your husbands as to our Lord.
[23]For the husband is the head of the wife, as the Meshiha is the head of the church, and he himself is the Saviour of the body.
[24]But as the church is subject to Meshiha, so also [should] wives be unto their husbands in every thing.
[25]Husbands, love your wives, as also the Meshiha loved his church, and gave himself for her,
[26]That he might sanctify her and purify her in the laver of waters and by the word,
[27]And that he might constitute her a church unto himself, being glorified, and not having blemish or wrinkle or any thing like these; but to be holy and spotless.
[28]So it becometh husbands to love their wives, as their own bodies. For he who his wife loveth, himself he loveth.
[29]For no man ever hated his own body, but nourisheth it, and taketh care of it; so also the Meshiha [taketh care] of the church.
[30]For we are members of his body, and of his flesh are we, and of his bones.
[31]Because of this a man leaveth his father and his mother, and cleaveth unto his wife, and they two become one flesh.
[32]This mystery is great; but I speak of the Meshiha and of his church.
[33]Nevertheless let every one of you so love his wife as his own self; but let the wife reverence her husband.
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