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