Ephesians 5:1 Cross References - Godbey

¹ Therefore be ye imitators of God, as beloved children;

⁴⁵ in order that you may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because He raises up His sun on the wicked and on the good, and rains on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

⁴⁸ Therefore ye shall be perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

³⁵ Moreover love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest: because He is good to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Therefore be ye merciful, as your Father is indeed merciful.

¹² But so many as received Him, to them gave He the right to become the children of God, to those believing on His name:

³² But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

¹² Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

¹⁵ but according to the Holy One who has called you. Be ye also holy in all your deportment; ¹⁶ because it has been written, Ye shall be holy; because I am holy.

¹ Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

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