Ephesians 5:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Matt 5:48 : 48 Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; 16 because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
Eph 4:32 : 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
1 John 4:11 : 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.
Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But love your enemies, and do [them] good, and lend, never despairing; {G560} and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. 36 Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Lev 11:45 : 45 For I am Jehovah that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
1 John 3:1-2 : 1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

Similar Verses (AI)

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1 Cor 11:1
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1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Cor 4:15-16
2 verses
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15For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
Eph 5:2
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2and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
Phil 3:17
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17Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
Eph 5:6-9
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6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;
8For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
9(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
1 Pet 1:14-17
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74%
14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:
15but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;
16because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
17And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:
1 John 5:1-2
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73%
1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever {G3588} loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2Hereby {G5129} we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
Eph 5:15
73%
15Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
1 Thess 5:5
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5for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
Gal 3:26
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26For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.
Matt 5:48
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48Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
1 John 5:21
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21[My] little children, guard yourselves from idols. amen.
Eph 4:32
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32and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Col 2:6
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6As therefore ye {G3880} received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk in him,
3 John 1:11
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11Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: {G1161} he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
1 Thess 4:1
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1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.
3 John 1:5
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5Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;
Eph 6:1
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1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Eph 6:4-5
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71%
4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
5Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
1 Thess 2:11-12
2 verses
71%
11as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,
12to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
2 Cor 5:20
71%
20We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
1 John 3:1-2
2 verses
70%
1Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
Eph 5:17
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17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Col 3:20
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20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Eph 1:5
70%
5having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 4:1
70%
1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
Phil 2:15
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15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
1 John 2:6
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6he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
1 Pet 1:22
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22Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
Heb 6:12
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12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
1 Pet 2:21
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21For {G1519} hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:
Rom 8:14
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14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
1 Thess 1:6
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6And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
Col 1:10
69%
10{G4043} {G5209} to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Eph 4:17
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17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the {G3062} Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Eph 4:15
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15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
Phil 2:5
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5Have this {G5426} mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Eph 5:21
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21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
1 John 4:11
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11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.