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15 But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors* served beyond the river,* or the gods of the Amorites* in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."

4 Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, it does not boast, it does not become conceited, 5 it does not behave dishonorably, it is not selfish*, it does not become angry, it does not keep a record of wrongs, 6 it does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

14 And to all these things add love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God, 17 and everything whatever* you do in word or in deed, giving thanks for all things in the name of the Lord Jesus to God the Father through him.

14 And to all these things add love, which is the bond of perfection.

15 See to it that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue good toward* one another and toward all people.

6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate."

9 Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate."

18 Then* Yahweh God said, "it is not good that the man* is alone. I will make for him a helper as his counterpart."*

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh. 25 And the man* and his wife, both of them, were naked, and they were not ashamed.

26 And God said, "Let us make humankind in* our image and according to* our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven,* and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth." 27 So* God created humankind in* his image, in* the likeness of God he created him,* male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven,* and over every animal that moves upon the earth."

7 "And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it."

Friends and Family Can Help One Another in Life

9 Two are better than the one, for they enjoy a better reward for their toil.

15 Did not one God make them?* But a remnant of the spirit is his.* And what does the one God desire? An offspring of God.* You must be attentive to* your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

Husbands and Wives

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;

28 Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ does the church,

31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."*

31 All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness. 32 Become* kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

Old Behavior, New Behavior, and Motivation

25 Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor,* because we are members of one another. 26 Be angry and do not sin;* do not let the sun set on your anger, 27 nor give place to the devil. 28 The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands what is good, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need. 29 No rotten word must proceed* from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear, 30 and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness. 32 Become* kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

22 He who finds a wife* finds good,

and he will obtain favor from Yahweh.

3 Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, 4 each of you* not looking out for your own interests*, but also each of you for the interests* of others.

26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,*27 for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

4 Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

Do Not Become Unevenly Yoked with Unbelievers

14 Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

11 Nevertheless, neither is woman anything apart from man, nor is man anything apart from woman in the Lord.