Imitators of God 1 ULT Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children, BSB BSB: Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
2 ULT and walk in love, as also Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma. BSB BSB: and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
3 ULT But sexual immorality and every impurity or greed must not even be named among you, just as is proper for saints, BSB BSB: But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
4 ULT and filthiness and foolish talk or crude jokes— which are not fitting— but instead, thanksgiving. BSB BSB: Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
5 ULT Indeed, know this for certain, that every sexually immoral or unclean or greedy{ person}— that is, an idolater— has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. BSB BSB: For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 ULT Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. BSB BSB: Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
7 ULT Therefore, do not become partners with them, BSB BSB: Therefore do not be partakers with them.
Children of Light 8 ULT because formerly you were darkness, but now{ are} light in the Lord. Walk as children of light BSB BSB: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
9 ULT (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), BSB BSB: for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
10 ULT carefully testing what is pleasing to the Lord. BSB BSB: Test and prove what pleases the Lord.
11 ULT And do not take part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even expose{ them}. BSB BSB: Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
12 ULT For it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret. BSB BSB: For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
13 ULT But everything exposed by the light is revealed, for everything that is revealed is light. BSB BSB: But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.
14 ULT Therefore it says,“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” BSB BSB: So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
15 ULT Watch carefully, therefore, how you walk— not as unwise but as wise, BSB BSB: Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
16 ULT redeeming the time because the days are evil. BSB BSB: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 ULT Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord{ is}. BSB BSB: Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
18 ULT And do not get drunk with wine, in which is recklessness. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, BSB BSB: Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
19 ULT speaking to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing psalms in your heart to the Lord, BSB BSB: Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
20 ULT giving thanks always for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father, BSB BSB: always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wives and Husbands (Song of Solomon 1:1–17; 1 Peter 3:1–7)
21 ULT submitting yourselves to one another in reverence for Christ— BSB BSB: Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 ULT wives, to your own husbands, as to the Lord. BSB BSB: Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
23 ULT For a husband is the head of the wife as Christ also{ is} the head of the church— he himself{ is} the savior of the body. BSB BSB: For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
24 ULT But as the church is subject to Christ, so also{ are} wives to their husbands in everything. BSB BSB: Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
26 ULT so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of the water with the word, BSB BSB: to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 ULT so that he might present the church to himself as glorious, not having stain or wrinkle or any of those things, but so that she might be holy and blameless. BSB BSB: and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 ULT In the same way, the husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife loves himself. BSB BSB: In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 ULT For no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and treats it with care, just as Christ also{ does} the church, BSB BSB: Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
30 ULT because we are members of his body. BSB BSB: For we are members of His body.
31 ULT “Because of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” BSB BSB: “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32 ULT This mystery is great— but I am speaking about Christ and about the church. BSB BSB: This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
33 ULT Nevertheless, you also— each one of you— must love his own wife in this way— as himself, and the wife must respect her husband. BSB BSB: Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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