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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EPH.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EPH.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God&#8217;s holy apostles and prophets. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EPH.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EPH.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">may have power, together with all the Lord&#8217;s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and to know this love that surpasses knowledge&#8212;that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EPH.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EPH.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EPH.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">That, however, is not the way of life you learned </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EPH.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EPH.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EPH.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">to be made new in the attitude of your minds; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EPH.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EPH.4.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EPH.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EPH.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;In your anger do not sin&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 4:4 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content">: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EPH.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and do not give the devil a foothold. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EPH.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EPH.4.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EPH.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EPH.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EPH.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><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></div>
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