See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, (5:15)

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil (5:16)

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is] (5:17)

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; (5:18)

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; (5:19)

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; (5:20)

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God (5:21)

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (5:22) com1

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body (5:23)

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing (5:24)

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (5:25)

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (5:26)

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (5:27)

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself (5:28)

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (5:29)

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones (5:30)

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh (5:31)

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church (5:32)

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband (5:33)

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