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I. OBEDIENT CHILDREN (5:1–21): Twelve rules for the Father’s household:

A. Follow Christ in love (5:1–2).

B. Avoid all immorality (5:3).

C. Refrain from obscene language (5:4–5).

D. Don’t allow others to deceive you (5:6–7).

E. Walk in the light (5:8–9, 11–14).

F. Seek God’s will and do it (5:10, 17).

G. Use every opportunity for doing good (5:15–16).

H. Don’t get drunk on wine (5:18a).

I. Be filled with the Spirit (5:18b).

J. Use music to encourage each other and to worship God (5:19).

K. Be thankful for all things (5:20).

L. Submit to one another (5:21).

II. OBEDIENT HUSBANDS AND WIVES (5:22–33)

A. Wives are to submit to their husbands as the church submits to Christ (5:22–24).

B. Husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves the church (5:25–33).

1. Christ died for the church (5:25).

2. Christ lives to make the church holy and clean (5:26).

3. Christ will someday present the church to himself as a glorious church without stain or wrinkle (5:27).

C. Husbands are to love their wives as they love their own bodies (5:28–33)