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But ye have not so learned Christ;

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.

But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

For ye were sometime darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].

But all things that are reproved, are made manifest by the light: for whatever doth make manifest is light.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].

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

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.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

But that ye also may know my affairs, [and] how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known to you all things:

But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;

But the other from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.