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5:1  Hence, be imitators of God, as beloved children,
5:2  and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a sacrificial offering whose fragrance is pleasing to God.
5:3  Indeed, fornication and impurity of any kind, as well as greed, should not even be mentioned among you. Such talk is not fitting for saints.
5:4  You should never engage in any obscene or foolish or suggestive conversation. All this is completely out of place. Instead, you should rather be engaged in offering thanks to God.
5:5  You can be absolutely certain that no immoral or impure person or one who is greedy—that is, an idolater—will have any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6  Let no one deceive you with worthless arguments. These are the very things that bring down the wrath of God on those who are disobedient.
5:7  Do not associate with them.
5:8  Once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
5:9  for light produces all goodness and righteousness and truth.
5:10  Discern what the Lord finds pleasing.
5:11  Take no part in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather seek to expose them.
5:12  For it is shameful even to speak of what deeds people do in secret.
5:13  However, everything that is exposed by the light is made visible,
5:14  and whatever is made visible is light. Therefore, it is said, “Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
5:15  Therefore, take care to live as intelligent people, and do not be like those who are senseless.
5:16  Make the most of the present time, for this is a wicked age.
5:17  Do not be foolish, but recognize what is the will of the Lord.
5:18  Do not get drunk on wine, which can lead to debauchery. Rather, be filled with the Spirit,
5:19  as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with one another. Sing and chant to the Lord in your hearts,
5:20  giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
5:21  Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
5:22  Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.
5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church, the body of which he is the Savior.
5:24  Just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also wives must be subject to their husbands in everything.
5:25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her
5:26  in order to sanctify her by cleansing her with water and the word,
5:27  in order to present the Church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but holy and without the slightest blemish.
5:28  In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
5:29  For no one ever hates his own body; rather, he nourishes it and cares for it, even as Christ does for the Church,
5:30  because we are members of his body.
5:31  For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
5:32  This is a great mystery. Here I am applying it to Christ and the Church.
5:33  However, each one of you should love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife should respect her husband.