32 And (A)be kind to one another, tenderhearted, (B)forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

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25 (A)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and (B)gave Himself for her, 26 that He might [a]sanctify and cleanse her (C)with the washing of water (D)by the word, 27 (E)that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, (F)not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 5:26 set it apart

(A)Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but (B)in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. (C)Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of (D)others.

The Humbled and Exalted Christ

(E)Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, (F)being in the form of God, did not consider it [a]robbery to be equal with God, (G)but [b]made Himself of no reputation, taking the form (H)of a bondservant, and (I)coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and (J)became (K)obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 2:6 Or something to be held onto to be equal
  2. Philippians 2:7 emptied Himself of His privileges

The Ways of Life and Death

14 The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.

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