Ephesians 5:1 Cross References - ACV

¹ Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

⁴⁵ For I am LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

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 upon him, says LORD.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the sons 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, Ye are not my people, it shall be said to them, The sons of the living God.

⁴⁵ so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

⁴⁸ Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad. ³⁶ Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

¹² But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

³² And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

¹² Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering,

¹⁵ but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct, ¹⁶ because it is written, Become ye holy, since I am holy.

¹ Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.