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Rejoice evermore.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

And to esteem them very highly in love for their work"s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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.

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;