Ephesians 5 - ESV
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English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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