{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Ephesians",
 "chapter": 5,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Be not ye therefore partakers with them."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,"
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;"
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,"
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:"
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."
  }
 ],
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