Ephesians 5:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Ye shall therefore be perfit, as your Father which is in heauen, is perfite.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But as hee which hath called you, is holie, so be yee holie in all maner of conuersation; 16 Because it is written, Be yee holie, for I am holie.
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Now therfore as the elect of God holy and beloued, put on the bowels of mercies, kindnesse, humblenesse of minde, meekenesse, long suffering:
  • Eph 4:32 : 32 Be ye courteous one to another, & tender hearted, freely forgiuing one another, euen as God for Christes sake, freely forgaue you.
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 Beloued, if God so loued vs, we ought also to loue one another.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my deare sonne or pleasant childe? yet since I spake vnto him, I still remembred him: therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I wil surely haue compassion vpon him, saith the Lorde.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the nomber of the children of Israel shall be as the sande of the sea, which can not be measured nor tolde: and in the place where it was saide vnto them, Yee are not my people, it shall be saide vnto them, Yee are the sonnes of the liuing God.
  • Luke 6:35-36 : 35 Wherefore loue ye your enemies, and doe good, and lend, looking for nothing againe, and your rewarde shalbe great, and ye shalbe the children of the most High: for he is kinde vnto the vnkinde, and to the euill. 36 Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 For I am the Lorde that brought you out of the lande of Egypt, to be your God, and that you should be holy, for I am holy.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 Beholde, what loue the Father hath giuen to vs, that we should be called the sonnes of God: for this cause this world knoweth you not, because it knoweth not him. 2 Dearely beloued, nowe are we the sonnes of God, but yet it is not made manifest what we shall be: and we know that when he shalbe made manifest, we shalbe like him: for we shall see him as he is.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But as many as receiued him, to them he gaue prerogatiue to be the sonnes of God, euen to them that beleeue in his Name.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the children of your father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to arise on the euill, and the good, and sendeth raine on the iust, and vniust.

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