Ephesians 5:1

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Be ye the folowers therfore of God as deare children,

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Ye shall therfore be perfecte, euen as youre father in heaue is perfecte.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but as he which hath called you is holy, eue so be ye holy also in all youre conuersacion: 16 for it it wrytte: Be ye holy, for I am holy.
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Now therfore as the electe of God, holy and beloued, put on tender mercye, kyndnes, humblenes of mynde, mekenesse, longe sufferynge,
  • Eph 4:32 : 32 But be ye curteous one to another, mercifull, and forgeue one another, eue as God hath forgeuen you in Christ.
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 Dearly beloued, yf God so loued vs, we oughte also to loue one another.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Vpon this complaynte, I thought thus by myself: is not Ephraim my deare sonne? Is he not the childe, with whom I haue had all myrth and pastyme? For sence the tyme that I first comoned with him, I haue him euer in remembraunce: therfore my very herte dryueth me vnto him: gladly and louyngly will I haue mercy vpon him, saieth the LORDE.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 And though the nombre of the children of Israel be as the sonde of the see, which can nether be measured ner tolde: Yet in the place where it is sayde vnto them, ye be not my people: euen there shall it be thus reported of them: they be ye childre of the lyuynge God.
  • Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But rather loue ye yor enemies, do good, and lende, lokynge for nothinge therof agayne: so shal yor rewarde be greate, and ye shalbe the children of the Hyest, for he is kynde, euen to the vnthankfull and to the euell. 36 Be ye therfore mercifull, as youre father also is mercifull.
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 for I am the LORDE, which brought you out of the londe of Egipte, that I might be youre God: therfore shal ye be holy, for I am holy.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 Beholde what loue the father hath shewed on vs, yt we shulde be called the childre of God. Therfore ye worlde knoweth you not, because it knoweth not him. 2 Dearly beloued, we are now ye childre of God, and yet hath it not appeared what we shalbe. But we knowe yt when he shal appeare, we shal be like him: for we shal se him as he is.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But as many as receaued him, to them gaue he power to be the children of God: euen soch as beleue in his name.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye maye be the chyldern of youre father which is in heauen: for he maketh his sonne to aryse on the euel and on the good, and sendeth his rayne on the iust and vniuste.

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