Ephesians 4:15

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But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

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  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
  • Eph 1:22 : 22 And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as head over all things.
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
  • Eph 2:21 : 21 In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).
  • Col 1:18-19 : 18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.
  • Ps 32:2 : 2 How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.
  • Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. 6 His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. 7 People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed,“Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Conduct in Love Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.
  • Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?
  • Judg 16:15 : 15 She said to him,“How can you say,‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

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    16From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.

    17Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

  • Eph 4:12-14
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    12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

    13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

  • Col 2:19
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    19He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

  • Eph 4:23-25
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    23to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

    24and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image– in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

    25Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

  • Eph 2:20-21
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    20because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

    21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20But you did not learn about Christ like this,

    21if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

  • Eph 3:17-19
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    17that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

    18you will be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

    19and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you will be filled up to all the fullness of God.

  • Eph 1:22-23
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    22And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as head over all things.

    23Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

  • Col 1:18
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    18He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

  • Eph 1:10
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    10toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ– the things in heaven and the things on earth.

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    2with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

    3making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

  • Col 2:2
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    2My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

  • Col 1:28
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    28We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

  • Rom 12:5
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    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • 2 Pet 3:18
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    18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

  • Col 2:9-10
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    9For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,

    10and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

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    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

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    16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.

  • Eph 3:10
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    10The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

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    12Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ.

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    2And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

  • Col 1:10
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    10so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

  • Eph 3:4
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    4When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

  • Col 1:4
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    4since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

  • Eph 4:10
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    10He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

  • 1 John 4:17
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    17By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

  • Col 2:7
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    7rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

  • Eph 1:17
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    17I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

  • Eph 1:15
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    15Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Therefore let those of us who are“perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

  • Eph 1:20
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    20This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

  • Col 4:4
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    4Pray that I may make it known as I should.

  • Col 3:14
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    14And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.