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Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”
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He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
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Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
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from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.
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they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;
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assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.
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Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,
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Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
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And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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Renounce Pagan Ways
But immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints.
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Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
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and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
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For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;
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but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light.
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Therefore it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.”
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
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As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
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Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the church;
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however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
