and also every kind of malice.
004:032 On the contrary learn to be kind to one another, tender-hearted,
forgiving one another, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you.
005:001 Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.
005:002 And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave
Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice
to God, yielding a fragrant odor.
005:003 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 God's people.
005:004 Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting--they are all
alike discreditable--and in place of these give thanks.
005:005 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 Christ and of God.
005:006 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account
of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.
005:007 Therefore do not become sharers with them.
005:008 There was a time when you were nothing but darkness.
Now, as Christians, you are Light itself.
005:009 Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light
is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--
005:010 and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing
to the Lord.
005:011 Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds
of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them;
005:012 for the things which are done by these people in secret it
is disgraceful even to speak of.
005:013 But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown
in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light.