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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1JN.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.4.16"><span class="content">God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EPH.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EPH.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EPH.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EPH.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EPH.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EPH.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">to make her holy, cleansing</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">having cleansed</span></span></span><span class="content"> her by the washing with water through the word, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EPH.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EPH.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EPH.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EPH.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">for we are members of his body. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EPH.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:31 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="GEN.2.24">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EPH.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">This is a profound mystery&#8212;but I am talking about Christ and the church. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EPH.5.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.</span></span></div>
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