1You are God’s dear children, so try to be like him.
2Live a life of love. Love others just as Christ loved us. He gave himself for us—a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.
3But there must be no sexual sin among you. There must not be any kind of evil or selfishly wanting more and more, because such things are not right for God’s holy people.
4Also, there must be no evil talk among you. Don’t say things that are foolish or filthy. These are not for you. But you should be giving thanks to God.
5You can be sure of this: No one will have a place in the kingdom of Christ and of God if that person commits sexual sins, or does evil things, or is a person who selfishly wants more and more. A greedy person like that is serving a false god.
6Don’t let anyone fool you with words that are not true. God gets very angry when people who don’t obey him talk like that.
7So don’t have anything to do with them.
8In the past you were full of darkness, but now you are full of light in the Lord. So live like children who belong to the light.
9This light produces every kind of goodness, right living, and truth.
10Try to learn what pleases the Lord.
11Have no part in the things that people in darkness do, which produce nothing good. Instead, tell everyone how wrong those things are.
12Actually, it is shameful to even talk about the things those people do in secret.
13But the light makes clear how wrong those things are.
14Yes, everything is made clear by the light. This is why we say, “Wake up, you who are sleeping! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”
15So be very careful how you live. Live wisely, not like fools.
16I mean that you should use every opportunity you have for doing good, because these are evil times.
17So don’t be foolish with your lives, but learn what the Lord wants you to do.
18Don’t be drunk with wine, which will ruin your life, but be filled with the Spirit.
19Encourage each other with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord.
20Always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wives and Husbands
21Be willing to serve each other out of respect for Christ.
22Wives, be willing to serve your husbands the same as the Lord.
23A husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church. Christ is the Savior of the church, which is his body.
24The church serves under Christ, so it is the same with you wives. You should be willing to serve your husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives the same as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
26He died to make the church holy. He used the telling of the Good News to make the church clean by washing it with water.
27Christ died so that he could give the church to himself like a bride in all her beauty. He died so that the church could be holy and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other thing wrong in it.
28And husbands should love their wives like that. They should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself,
29because no one ever hates his own body, but feeds and takes care of it. And that is what Christ does for the church
30because we are parts of his body.
31The Scriptures say, “That is why a man will leave his father and mother and join his wife, and the two people will become one.”
32That secret truth is very important—I am talking about Christ and the church.
33But each one of you must love his wife as he loves himself. And a wife must respect her husband.
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