Ephesians 5:1 Cross References

Ephesians 5:1

1: Follow God's example in everything you do, because you are his dear children.

Matthew 5:48

  1. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

1 John 4:11

  1. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

1 Peter 1:15

  1. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God--who chose you to be his children--is holy.
  2. For he himself has said, "You must be holy because I am holy."

Luke 6:35

  1. "Love your enemies! Do good to them! Lend to them! And don't be concerned that they might not repay. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to the unthankful and to those who are wicked.
  2. You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.

Ephesians 4:32

  1. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

Colossians 3:12

  1. Since God chose you to be the holy people whom he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

Leviticus 11:45

  1. I, the LORD, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God. You must therefore be holy because I am holy.

1 John 3:1

  1. See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we are his children.
  2. Yes, dear friends, we are already God's children, and we can't even imagine what we will be like when Christ returns. But we do know that when he comes we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.

John 1:12

  1. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

Matthew 5:45

  1. In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too.

Jeremiah 31:20

  1. "Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?" asks the LORD. "I had to punish him, but I still love him. I long for him and surely will have mercy on him.

Hosea 1:10

  1. Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'
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