Ephesians 4:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

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  • Col 3:12-13 : 12 As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things; 13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
  • Matt 5:3-5 : 3 Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 4 Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted. 5 Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;
  • Jas 3:15-18 : 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
  • 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
  • Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, 23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.
  • Prov 3:34 : 34 He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.
  • Prov 16:19 : 19 Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • Num 12:3 : 3 Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.
  • Zeph 2:3 : 3 Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
  • Mark 9:19 : 19 And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.
  • Acts 20:19 : 19 Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
  • Ps 45:4 : 4 And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.
  • Isa 61:1-3 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again; 2 To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad; 3 To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
  • Jas 1:21 : 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

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  • Col 3:12-14
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    12As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

    13Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

    14And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

  • Eph 4:3
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    3Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

  • Eph 4:31-32
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    31Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

    32And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

  • 1 Cor 13:4-5
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    4Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

    5Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

  • Eph 4:1
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    1I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

  • Phil 2:1-4
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    1If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,

    2Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;

    3Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

    4Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

  • Titus 3:2
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    2To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

  • Col 1:11
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    11Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

  • 2 Tim 2:24-25
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    24For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,

    25Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

  • 1 Cor 4:21
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    21What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?

  • 2 Cor 10:1
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    1Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

  • 1 Thess 5:14
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    14And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

  • Gal 6:1-2
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    1Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

    2Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

  • Gal 5:22-23
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    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

    23Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

  • Phil 4:5
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    5Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.

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    10Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

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    6In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,

  • Eph 4:15-17
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    15But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

    16Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

    17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

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    5And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

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    1We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

    2Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14Let all you do be done in love.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

  • 2 Cor 6:4
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    4But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

  • Rom 12:16
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    16Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.

  • Rom 15:5
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    5Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus:

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

  • Eph 1:15
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    15For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,

  • 2 Cor 2:8
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    8For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

  • Eph 4:25
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    25And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.