Ephesians 5:1

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Live in Love Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:48 : 48 So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Exhortation to Unity and Love Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
  • Eph 4:32 : 32 Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”
  • Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 for I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the 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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    1Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:15-16
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    15For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

    16I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

  • Phil 3:17
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    17Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

  • Eph 5:6-9
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

    8for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light–

    9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–

  • 1 Pet 1:14-17
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    74%

    14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

    15but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,

    16for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”

    17And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

  • 1 John 5:1-2
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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

  • Eph 5:15
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    15Live Wisely Therefore consider carefully how you live– not as unwise but as wise,

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

  • Gal 3:26
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    26For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

  • Matt 5:48
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    48So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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

  • Eph 4:32
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    32Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

  • Col 2:6
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    6Warnings Against the Adoption of False Philosophies Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5The Charge to Gaius Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers(even though they are strangers).

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

  • Eph 6:4-5
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    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

    5Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

  • 1 Thess 2:11-12
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    11As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

    12exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

  • 2 Cor 5:20
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    20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf,“Be reconciled to God!”

  • 1 John 3:1-2
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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

    2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is.

  • Col 3:20
    70%

    20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

  • Eph 1:5
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    5He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–

  • Eph 4:1
    70%

    1Live in Unity I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

  • Phil 2:15
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    15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

  • 1 John 2:6
    70%

    6The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

  • Heb 6:12
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    12so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

  • 1 Pet 2:21
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    21For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.

  • Rom 8:14
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    14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

  • 1 Thess 1:6
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    6And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

  • 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,

  • Eph 4:17
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    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 4:15
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    15But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

  • Phil 2:5
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    5You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

  • Eph 5:21
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    21and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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