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¹ Be ye the folowers therfore of God as deare children,² and walke in loue, euen as Christ loued vs, and gaue him selfe for vs an offerynge and sacrifice of a swete sauoure vnto God.

³ As for whordome and all vnclennes, or couetousnes, let it not be named amoge you, as it becommeth sayntes:⁴ nether fylthines, ner folish talkynge, ner ieastynge (which are not comly) but rather geuynge of thakes.⁵ For be sure, that no whore monger, or vncleane person, or couetous person (which is a worshipper off ymages) hath inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christ and of God.⁶ (Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes) for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue.⁷ Be not ye therfore companions with them.⁸ For sometyme ye were darknesse, but now are ye lighte in the LORDE. Walke as the children of lighte.⁹ (For the frute of the sprete is all maner of goodnes, and righteousnes and trueth:)¹⁰ and prone what is pleasinge vnto the LORDE,¹¹ and haue no fellishippe with ye vnfrutefull workes of darknes, but rather rebuke the.¹² For it is shame euen to name those thinges, which are done of them in secrete.¹³ But all thinges are manifest, whan they are rebuked of the lighte. For what so euer is manifest, that same is lighte.¹⁴ Therfore sayeth he: Awake thou that slepest, and stonde vp fro the deed, and Christ shal geue the lighte.¹⁵ Take hede therfore how ye walke circumspectly, not as the vnwyse, but as ye wyse,¹⁶ and redeme the tyme, for it is a miserable tyme.¹⁷ Wherfore be not ye vnwyse, but vnderstonde what the wil of the LORDE is,¹⁸ and be not dronken with wyne, wherin is excesse: but be full of the sprete¹⁹ and talke amoge youre selues of Psalmes, and ymnes, and spirituall songes, synginge and makynge melody vnto the LORDE in youre hertes²⁰ geuynge thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God the father, in the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,

²¹ submyttinge youreselues one to another in the feare of God.²² Let the wemen submytte them selues vnto their hussbandes, as vnto the LORDE.²³ For the hussbande is the wyues heade, eue as Christ also is the heade of the congregacion, and he is the Sauioure of his body.²⁴ Therfore as the congregacion is in subieccion to Christ, likewyse let the wyues be in subieccion to their hussbandes in all thinges.²⁵ Ye hussbandes loue youre wyues, euen as Christ loued the congregacion, and gaue himselfe for it,²⁶ to sanctifye it, and clensed it in the fountayne of water by the worde,²⁷ to make it vnto himselfe a glorious congregacion, hauynge no spot ner wrynkle, ner eny soch thinge, but that it shulde be holy and without blame.²⁸ So oughte men also to loue their wyues, euen as their awne bodyes. He that loueth his wife, loueth himselfe.²⁹ For no ma euer yet hated his awne flesshe, but norisheth and cherissheth it, euen as the LORDE doth also the congregacion.³⁰ For we are membres of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.³¹ For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleue vnto his wife, and they two shal be one flesh:³² This is a greate secrete: but I speake of Christ and the congregacion.³³ Neuertheles do ye so, that euery one of you loue his wife euen as himselfe: but let the wife feare hir hussbande.