Ephesians 5:1

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Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.

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  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But just as the One who called you is holy, so also be holy in all your conduct. 16 For it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
  • Eph 4:32 : 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
  • 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, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.
  • Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend without expecting anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore, be holy, because I am holy.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
  • John 1:12 : 12 Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may become children of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:15-16
    2 verses
    79%

    15For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

    16Therefore, I urge you to imitate me.

  • Eph 5:2
    77%

    2And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.

  • Phil 3:17
    76%

    17Join together in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and keep your eyes on those who live as we do, as they are an example for you.

  • Eph 5:6-9
    4 verses
    76%

    6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

    8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

    9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.)

  • 1 Pet 1:14-17
    4 verses
    74%

    14As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

    15But just as the One who called you is holy, so also be holy in all your conduct.

    16For it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

    17If you call upon the Father, who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, live your lives in reverent fear during the time of your temporary residence here.

  • 1 John 5:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.

    2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments.

  • Eph 5:15
    73%

    15Be very careful, then, how you walk—not as unwise but as wise.

  • 1 Thess 5:5
    73%

    5You are all children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

  • Gal 3:26
    72%

    26So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,

  • Matt 5:48
    72%

    48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

  • 1 John 5:21
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    21Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

  • Eph 4:32
    72%

    32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

  • Col 2:6
    72%

    6Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him.

  • 3 John 1:11
    72%

    11Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
    71%

    1Finally, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, just as you received instructions from us on how you ought to live and please God, that you would excel even more.

  • 3 John 1:5
    71%

    5Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers, especially when they are strangers.

  • Eph 6:1
    71%

    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

  • Eph 6:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

    5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with sincerity of heart, as you would Christ.

  • 1 Thess 2:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Just as you know how we dealt with each one of you like a father with his own children,

    12encouraging, comforting, and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

  • 2 Cor 5:20
    71%

    20We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

    2Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • Col 3:20
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    20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

  • Eph 1:5
    70%

    5He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

  • Eph 4:1
    70%

    1Therefore, I, a prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

  • Phil 2:15
    70%

    15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverted generation. Among them, you shine as lights in the world,

  • 1 John 2:6
    70%

    6Whoever says they abide in Him must also walk as He walked.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    70%

    22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • Heb 6:12
    70%

    12Then you will not become sluggish, but will imitate those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.

  • 1 Pet 2:21
    70%

    21To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in His footsteps.

  • Rom 8:14
    69%

    14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

  • 1 Thess 1:6
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    6And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the message in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Spirit.

  • Col 1:10
    69%

    10so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

  • Eph 4:17
    69%

    17Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds.

  • Eph 4:15
    69%

    15But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ.

  • Phil 2:5
    69%

    5Have the same mindset in yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:

  • Eph 5:21
    69%

    21submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

  • 1 John 4:11
    69%

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.