They should follow God, live a life of love, and be clean and pure
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📚✭Therefore be followers of God as dear children✭, 2 📚and walk in love✭, just as Christ loved us✭ and gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma✭. 3 📚But as for sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or greed✭, let there be not even a mention of these among you, as is proper for saints; 4 📚nor let there be filthiness, or foolish talk, or coarse jesting, which are improper, but rather giving of thanks✭. 5 📚For this you know: no sexually immoral person, no impure person, no covetous person (he is an idolater)✭, has any inheritance in the kingdom✭ of Christ and of God. 6 📚Let no man deceive you✭ with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God✭ comes upon the children of disobedience. 7 📚Therefore do not be sharers with them.
They are children of the light and must behave in accordance with this truth
8 📚✭For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Behave as children of light 9 📚(for the fruit✭ of the Spirit is in all goodness✭ and righteousness✭ and truth)✭, 10 📚✭finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 📚And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 📚For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 📚But all things exposed are made evident by the light. For whatever makes evident is light. 14 📚✭Therefore he says,
“You who are sleeping,
awake and rise from the dead✭,
and Christ will give you light”.
15 📚See then that you behave✭ carefully, not as fools, but as wise✭, 16 📚✭redeeming the time, because the days are evil✭. 17 📚Therefore do not be unwise, but understand✭ what the will of the Lord is.
They should be constantly filled with God’s Spirit
18 📚And do not get drunk✭ with wine, in which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit✭, 19 📚✭✭speaking among yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 📚✭giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
21 📚Submit✭ yourselves to one another in the fear✭ of God.
Husbands and wives should maintain a loving and respectful relationship
22 📚Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord✭. 23 📚For the husband is the head of the wife✭, just as Christ is the head of the church and the saviour✭ of the body✭. 24 📚Therefore as the church is to be in submission to Christ, so the wives should be to their own husbands in everything✭.
25 📚Husbands, love✭ your wives, just as Christ✭ loved the church and gave himself✭ for it, 26 📚✭that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word✭, 27 📚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. 28 📚✭So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 📚For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes✭ it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 📚For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 📚For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two of them will be one flesh. 32 📚✭This is a great mystery. But I am speaking about Christ and the church. 33 📚✭Nevertheless let each one of you also love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she shows reverence to her husband.