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Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

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.

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

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

for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.]

Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

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.

For the rest, brethren, be strong in [the] Lord, and in the might of his strength.

regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.

but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, taking his place in [the] likeness of men;

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to [his] good pleasure.

because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.

But my God shall abundantly supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard [of your faith and love], do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross—by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,