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Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it].

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.

for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord; walk as children of light,

and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [them],

But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.

See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is] the will of the Lord.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the husband.

And [ye] fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in [the] discipline and admonition of [the] Lord.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from [the] soul,

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.

But in order that *ye* also may know what concerns me, how I am getting on, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in [the] Lord, shall make all things known to you;

But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,