not so
much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
5:4. Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no
purpose: but rather giving of thanks.
5:5. For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or
covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things
cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.
5:7. Be ye not therefore partakers with them.
5:8. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk
then as children of the light.
5:9. For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and
truth:
5:10. Proving what is well pleasing to God.
5:11. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but
rather reprove them.
5:12. For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even
to speak of.
5:13. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
for all that is made manifest is light.
5:14. Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the
dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.
5:15. See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as
unwise,
5:16. But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
5:17. Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will
of God.
5:18. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled
with the Holy Spirit,
5:19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:
5:20. Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, to God and the Father:
5:21. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.
5:22. Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:
5:23. Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head
of the church. He is the saviour of his body.
5:24. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the
wives be to their husbands in all things.
As the church is subject to Christ... The church then, according to St.
Paul, is ever obedient to Christ, and can never fall from him, but
remain faithful to him, unspotted and unchanged to the end of the world.
5:25. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and
delivered himself up for it:
5:26. That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in
the
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