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redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
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speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
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giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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submitting to one another in the fear of God.
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Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
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Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
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that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
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that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
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So husbands ought to love their own 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 the Lord does the church.
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For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
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"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
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This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.