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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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

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

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

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

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

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

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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

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

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

And they that are Christ"s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.