Ephesians 5:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Be therefore followers of God, as beloved children;

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  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct; 16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience.
  • Eph 4:32 : 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God 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 pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
  • 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 to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
  • Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be children of the Highest: for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil. 36 Be therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him. 2 Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be: but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the children of God, to those who believe in his name:
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1 Be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:15-16
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    79%

    15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

    16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

  • Eph 5:2
    77%

    2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

  • Phil 3:17
    76%

    17 Brothers, join in following my example, and mark those who walk as you have us for a pattern.

  • Eph 5:6-9
    4 verses
    76%

    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

    7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

    8 For 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 and righteousness and truth;)

  • 1 Pet 1:14-17
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    74%

    14 As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

    15 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct;

    16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."

    17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in reverent fear;

  • 1 John 5:1-2
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    73%

    1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them.

    2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.

  • Eph 5:15
    73%

    15 See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5 You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

  • Gal 3:26
    72%

    26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Matt 5:48
    72%

    48 Therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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

  • Eph 4:32
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    32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

  • Col 2:6
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    6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him:

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11 Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1 Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

  • 3 John 1:5
    71%

    5 Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers;

  • Eph 6:1
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    1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

  • Eph 6:4-5
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    4 And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

    5 Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

  • 1 Thess 2:11-12
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    11 As you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,

    12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.

  • 2 Cor 5:20
    71%

    20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

    2 Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be: but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • Col 3:20
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    20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

  • Eph 1:5
    70%

    5 Having predestined us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

  • Eph 4:1
    70%

    1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 That you may be blameless and harmless, children of God, without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;

  • 1 John 2:6
    70%

    6 He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
    70%

    22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

  • Heb 6:12
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    12 That you not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • 1 Pet 2:21
    70%

    21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

  • Rom 8:14
    69%

    14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

  • 1 Thess 1:6
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    6 And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit:

  • Col 1:10
    69%

    10 That you might walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • Eph 4:15
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    15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ:

  • Phil 2:5
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    5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

  • Eph 5:21
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    21 Submitting to one another in the fear of God.

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.