Ephesians 5:1

World English Bible (2000)

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
  • Eph 4:32 : 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
  • Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. 36 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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    1Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:15-16
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    15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

    16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

  • Eph 5:2
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    2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

  • Phil 3:17
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    17Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

  • Eph 5:6-9
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

    7Therefore don't be partakers with them.

    8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

    9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

  • 1 Pet 1:14-17
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    14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

    15but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

    16because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."

    17If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

  • 1 John 5:1-2
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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

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

  • Eph 5:15
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    15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

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

  • Matt 5:48
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    48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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    21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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

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

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and 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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    4You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

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    11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

    12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

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    20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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    1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

    2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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    17Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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    20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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    1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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    15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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    6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

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    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

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

  • Rom 8:14
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    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

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    6You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

  • Col 1:10
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    10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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

  • Phil 2:5
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    5Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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    21subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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    11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.