Imitators of God
Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, 1Jn 4:111Pe 1:15-16Eph 4:32Mat 5:48Luk 6:35-36Col 3:12Lev 11:451Jn 3:1-2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us 1and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. Jhn 13:34Gal 2:20Col 3:142Co 2:151Co 16:14Mat 20:28Tit 2:141Pe 4:8
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. Col 3:5Eph 5:5Gal 5:19-211Co 6:181Th 4:31Th 4:71Co 6:13Eph 5:12 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. Col 3:8Eph 4:291Th 5:18Pro 15:2Jas 3:4-8Mat 12:34-37Ecc 10:13Col 3:15-17 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. Gal 5:211Co 6:9-10Col 3:5Eph 5:3Rev 22:15Rev 21:8Gal 5:19Heb 13:4
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. Rom 1:18Mat 24:4Col 2:81Jn 4:12Th 2:10-12Col 3:6Gal 6:7-8Mat 24:24 Therefore do not be partakers with them. Rev 18:41Ti 5:22Eph 5:11Num 16:26Pro 1:10-17Psa 50:18Pro 13:20Pro 9:6
Children of Light
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, Jhn 8:121Jn 1:7Jhn 12:46Act 26:18Col 1:131Pe 2:9-11Isa 42:6-7Eph 4:18 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. Gal 5:22-233Jn 1:111Jn 3:9-10Eph 6:14Rom 15:141Ti 6:11Php 1:111Pe 2:24-25 Test and prove what pleases the Lord. Rom 12:1-2Heb 12:28Psa 19:141Pe 2:51Pe 2:201Th 5:21Pro 21:31Ti 2:3
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Rom 13:121Ti 5:202Th 3:62Jn 1:10-11Rom 16:172Th 3:14Psa 1:1-2Rev 18:4 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. Eph 5:3Rom 2:16Ecc 12:14Jer 23:242Sa 12:121Pe 4:3Pro 9:17Rev 20:12 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, 2 for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself. Jhn 3:20-211Co 4:5Hos 2:10Hos 7:1Mic 7:9Lam 2:14Heb 1:13 So it is said: Isa 60:1Rom 13:11-12Isa 26:191Th 5:6Isa 52:12Co 4:6Jhn 5:25-29Col 3:1
“Wake up, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, Col 4:5Jas 3:13Php 1:271Co 14:20Pro 14:81Ti 6:91Pe 1:22Mat 10:16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Col 4:5Amo 5:13Jhn 12:35Ecc 12:1Eph 6:13Gal 6:10Rom 13:11Ecc 9:10 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Rom 12:21Th 5:18Col 1:9Eph 5:151Pe 4:2Jer 4:221Th 4:1-3Col 4:5 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Luk 1:15Pro 20:1Rom 13:13Gal 5:21-25Act 11:24Isa 5:221Co 5:11Luk 11:13
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, Col 3:161Co 14:26Psa 95:2Act 16:25Psa 147:7Jas 5:13Psa 105:2-3Jhn 4:23-24 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Col 3:171Th 5:18Heb 13:15Php 4:6Eph 5:42Th 1:3Psa 34:1Isa 63:7
Wives and Husbands
(Song 1:1–17; 1 Peter 3:1–7)
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 3 Php 2:3Eph 5:24Eph 5:22Heb 13:171Pe 5:51Pe 2:171Ti 3:4Gal 5:13
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. Col 3:181Pe 3:1-6Tit 2:5Gen 3:16Eph 5:22Est 1:201Ti 2:11-12Est 1:16-18 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. 1Co 11:3-10Col 1:18Eph 1:22-23Eph 5:25-26Eph 4:151Th 1:10Rev 5:91Co 6:13 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Eph 5:33Col 3:20Tit 2:7Tit 2:9Col 3:22Exo 23:13Exo 29:35
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her 1Pe 3:7Col 3:19Eph 5:28Gen 2:24Eph 5:33Eph 5:2Gal 1:4Rev 5:9 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, Heb 10:22Jhn 15:3Ezk 36:25Jhn 3:5Jhn 17:17-191Co 6:11Tit 3:5-71Pe 1:22-23 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. Col 1:22Heb 9:141Pe 1:192Co 11:2Eph 1:42Co 4:14Sng 4:7Jud 1:24
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Eph 5:25Mat 19:5Gen 2:21-24Eph 5:33Eph 5:31 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. Eph 5:31Ezk 34:14-15Ecc 4:5Jhn 6:50-58Pro 11:17Isa 40:11Mat 23:37Ezk 34:27 For we are members of His body. 4 1Co 6:151Co 12:12-27Rom 12:5Gen 2:23Eph 1:23Col 2:19
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 5 Gen 2:24Mat 19:5Mrk 10:7-81Co 6:16 This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. 2Co 11:2Rev 21:2Isa 54:5Rev 19:7-8Col 2:2Isa 62:4-51Ti 3:16Jhn 3:29 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 1Pe 3:2-7Est 1:20Eph 5:22Eph 5:25Col 3:19Eph 5:28-29Heb 12:91Ki 1:31