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and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

because of this become not fools, but--understanding what is the will of the Lord,

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.