Ephesians 5:1 Cross References - Riverside

¹ BE imitators of God as beloved children

⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise upon the bad and the good, and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.

⁴⁸ You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

³⁵ But love your enemies and do good and lend without hope of return, and your reward will be great and you will be sons of the Most High. For he is generous to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Become compassionate as your Father is compassionate.

¹² All who received him — to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

³² Be kind to one another, sympathetic, forgiving one another just as God in Christ has forgiven you.

¹² Put on, then, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, sympathies, compassions, kindness, humility, gentleness, slowness to anger,

¹⁵ but, like the Holy One who has called you, become yourselves holy in all your way of life, ¹⁶ for it is written, "You shall be holy because I am holy."

¹ SEE what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. The reason why tho world does not know us is that it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God and it is not yet plain what we shall be. But we know that if he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

¹¹ Beloved, if God has so loved us, we ought also to love one another.