These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Ephesians 5
Brit Hadashah 33 verses
- 1 Therefore be imitators of , as His dear children.
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And live and act lovingly, as also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an and to , yielding a fragrant odor.
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John 13:34 Colossians 3:14 Galatians 2:20 Matthew 20:28 John 15:12-13 2 Corinthians 2:15 Hebrews 10:10-12 Hebrews 9:26 1 Peter 2:21-24 Revelation 1:5 1 Thessalonians 4:9 Romans 8:3 Hebrews 9:14 Genesis 8:21 2 Corinthians 8:9 Hebrews 9:23 Galatians 1:4 1 John 4:20-21 Hebrews 7:25-27 Ephesians 4:15 Leviticus 1:9 1 Corinthians 16:14 1 John 3:16 Leviticus 1:13 Romans 14:15-16 1 John 3:11-12 1 Timothy 4:12 Revelation 5:9 Ephesians 4:2 Titus 2:14 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 1 Peter 4:8 1 Timothy 2:6 Leviticus 1:17 1 John 3:23 Ephesians 3:19 Ephesians 3:17 Romans 4:25 Amos 5:21 Ephesians 5:25 1 Corinthians 5:7 Leviticus 3:16 John 6:51 -
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But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among Elohim’s people.
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Colossians 3:5 1 Corinthians 6:18 Ephesians 5:5 Galatians 5:19-21 1 Corinthians 6:13 Revelation 21:8 Ephesians 5:12 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Mark 7:21-22 1 Corinthians 10:8 1 Corinthians 5:10-11 Matthew 15:19 2 Timothy 3:2 Romans 6:13 Numbers 25:1 Jeremiah 22:17 Deuteronomy 23:17-18 1 Timothy 6:10 Hebrews 13:4-5 Romans 16:2 Luke 16:14 Psalm 10:3 1 Corinthians 5:1 Titus 1:7 1 Timothy 3:3 Micah 2:2 2 Corinthians 12:21 2 Peter 2:14 Luke 12:15 Jeremiah 8:10 Joshua 7:21 Revelation 2:14 1 Timothy 2:10 Hebrews 12:16 Ephesians 4:19-20 Exodus 20:17 2 Peter 2:3 Philippians 1:27 Psalm 119:36 1 Peter 5:2 Revelation 22:15 Proverbs 28:16 Exodus 18:21 Jeremiah 6:13 1 Thessalonians 4:7 Titus 1:11 Titus 2:3 Acts 15:20 Revelation 2:21 Ezekiel 33:31 Exodus 23:13 Romans 1:29 1 Samuel 8:3 1 Thessalonians 4:3 2 Peter 2:10 Revelation 9:21 Acts 20:33 -
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Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting—they are all alike discreditable—and in place of these give thanks.
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Colossians 3:8 Ephesians 4:29 James 3:4-8 Ecclesiastes 10:13 Hebrews 13:15 Proverbs 15:2 Psalm 92:1 Psalm 107:21-22 2 Corinthians 9:15 Philippians 4:6 Matthew 12:34-37 2 Corinthians 1:11 2 Peter 2:18 Mark 7:22 1 Thessalonians 5:18 John 6:23 Psalm 33:1 Ephesians 5:19-20 2 Peter 2:7 Jude 1:10 Romans 1:28 Colossians 3:15-17 Daniel 6:10 1 Thessalonians 3:9 Jude 1:13 Proverbs 12:23 Philemon 1:8 - 5 For be well assured that no fornicator or immoral person and no money-grubber—or in other words idol-worshipper—has any share awaiting him in the Kingdom of and of .
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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that Elohim’s anger is coming upon the disobedient.
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Romans 1:18 Colossians 2:8 Colossians 3:6 Matthew 24:4 Galatians 6:7-8 Ephesians 2:2-3 1 John 4:1 1 Peter 2:8 Mark 13:5 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 Micah 3:5 Ezekiel 13:10-16 Psalm 78:31 Jeremiah 29:31 2 Kings 18:20 Numbers 32:13-14 Matthew 24:24 Colossians 2:4 Hebrews 3:19 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Joshua 22:17-18 Mark 13:22 Colossians 2:18 Jeremiah 29:8-9 Jeremiah 23:14-16 - 7 Therefore do not become sharers with them.
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There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Messiahians, you are Light itself.
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John 8:12 Acts 26:18 1 Peter 2:9-11 1 John 1:7 Ephesians 2:2 Luke 16:8 Isaiah 42:6-7 John 12:36 Colossians 1:13 Isaiah 2:5 Isaiah 9:2 Isaiah 60:19-20 Ephesians 6:12 Ephesians 4:18 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8 Psalm 74:20 Acts 17:30 Jeremiah 13:16 Matthew 4:16 Romans 2:19 Isaiah 42:16 Luke 1:79 1 John 2:8-11 Galatians 5:25 Isaiah 49:6 1 Corinthians 1:30 John 1:4-5 2 Corinthians 3:18 Titus 3:3 Romans 1:21 Isaiah 60:1-3 2 Corinthians 4:6 John 12:46 John 1:9 Isaiah 49:9 Ephesians 5:2 2 Corinthians 6:14 Ephesians 2:11-12 - 9 Live and act as sons of Light—for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and —
- 10 and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord.
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Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them;
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1 Timothy 5:20 Romans 13:12 2 Thessalonians 3:6 Titus 2:15 Romans 6:21 Romans 16:17 2 John 1:10-11 2 Timothy 4:2 Leviticus 19:17 2 Timothy 3:5 Revelation 18:4 Galatians 6:8 2 Thessalonians 3:14 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Genesis 20:16 Psalm 141:5 Proverbs 9:6-8 Matthew 18:15 Proverbs 19:25 Romans 1:22-32 Psalm 94:20-21 Luke 3:19 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 Proverbs 1:31 John 3:19-21 Job 24:13-17 Isaiah 3:10-11 Ephesians 4:22 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 Proverbs 29:1 Jeremiah 15:17 Proverbs 25:12 1 Timothy 6:5 Isaiah 29:21 Proverbs 13:18 Psalm 1:1-2 Proverbs 15:12 Psalm 26:4-5 1 Thessalonians 5:7 Proverbs 4:14-15 Ephesians 5:7 Genesis 49:5-7 - 12 for the things which are done by these people in secret it is disgraceful even to speak of.
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But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light.
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For this reason it is said, “Rise, sleeper; rise from among the dead, and will shed light upon you.”
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Therefore be very careful how you live and act. Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise.
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Colossians 4:5 Philippians 1:27 Revelation 19:10 1 Peter 1:22 1 Timothy 6:9 Ephesians 5:33 Luke 24:25 Job 2:10 Matthew 27:24 Proverbs 14:8 1 Thessalonians 5:15 Matthew 27:4 Hebrews 12:25 Matthew 10:16 Galatians 3:1 Galatians 3:3 1 Corinthians 14:20 Matthew 25:2 Matthew 8:4 Colossians 1:9 Psalm 73:22 James 3:13 2 Samuel 24:10 Exodus 23:13 - 16 Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.
- 17 On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord’s will is.
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Do not over-indulge in wine—a thing in which excess is so easy—
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Proverbs 20:1 Luke 1:15 1 Corinthians 5:11 Romans 13:13 Isaiah 5:22 1 Thessalonians 5:7 1 Peter 4:3-4 Isaiah 5:11-13 Proverbs 23:20-21 Proverbs 23:29-35 Luke 21:34 Galatians 5:21-25 1 Corinthians 6:10 Genesis 9:21 Luke 12:45 Luke 11:13 Deuteronomy 21:20 Psalm 63:3-5 Song of Solomon 1:4 Psalm 69:12 Titus 1:6 Genesis 19:32-35 Acts 2:13-18 Acts 11:24 Zechariah 9:15-17 Matthew 23:25 1 Corinthians 11:21 Isaiah 25:6 Matthew 24:49 Isaiah 55:1 Song of Solomon 7:9 - 19 but drink deeply of Elohim’s . Speak to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer in your hearts to the Lord.
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Always and for everything let your thanks to the Father be presented in the of our Lord the ;
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Colossians 3:17 1 Thessalonians 5:18 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Ephesians 5:4 Psalm 34:1 Hebrews 13:15 John 14:13-14 Job 1:21 1 Peter 4:11 John 15:16 Philippians 1:3 1 Corinthians 1:4 1 Peter 2:5 Philippians 4:6 Isaiah 63:7 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Acts 5:41 John 16:23-26 Colossians 1:11-12 1 Thessalonians 3:9 -
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and submit to one another out of reverence for .
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- 22 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
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because a husband is the Head of his wife as also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.
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And just as the Church submits to , so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.
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- 25 Married men, your wives, as also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;
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in order to make her , cleansing her with the baptismal water by the ,
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that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be and unblemished.
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2 Corinthians 11:2 Ephesians 1:4 Colossians 1:22 1 Peter 1:19 2 Peter 3:14 Colossians 1:28 Jude 1:24 Song of Solomon 4:7 2 Corinthians 4:14 Hebrews 9:14 Isaiah 60:15-20 Psalm 87:3 Isaiah 62:3 Psalm 45:13 Hebrews 12:22-24 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Jude 1:21 Jeremiah 33:9 Revelation 21:10-27 Revelation 7:9-17 -
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So too married men ought to their wives as much as they themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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- 29 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as feeds and cherishes the Church;
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because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.
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“For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one.”
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- 32 That is a great hitherto kept secret: I mean the concerning and the Church.
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Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.
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