Ephesians 5:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ be ye therefore imitators of God as beloved children.

⁴⁵ because I am the Lord who brought you up out of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, because I the Lord am holy.

²⁰ Ephraim is a beloved son; my darling child; since my words are in him I will surely remember him. For this cause I have been anxious for him, I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ [Now the number of the children of Israel was like the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor counted.] "But it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, " You are not my people, " they shall be called children of the Living God,

⁴⁵ that you may be the children of your Father in heaven: for he causeth the sun to rise on bad and good, and sendeth the rain on just and unjust.

⁴⁸ You therefore are to be perfect, as your Father, who is in heaven, is perfect.

³⁵ But love your enemies; and do good; and lend without any mistrust, and your reward will be great. And you will be the children of the Most High Because he is kind, even to the ungrateful and malignant; ³⁶ be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

¹² But to as many as received him he granted the privilege of becoming children of God, even to them who believe in his name,

³² and be kind to one another, tenderly compassionate, forgiving one another. And as God hath in Christ forgiven you,

¹² put on therefore as chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of tender mercies, gentleness, humility, meekness, long suffering,

¹⁵ but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye also holy in the whole course of your life; ¹⁶ for it is written, "Be ye holy, because I am holy."

¹ Behold what a love the Father hath shewn us, that we should be called children of God: on this account the world doth not know us, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God. Though it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be, yet we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him: that we shall see him as he is.

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us; we surely ought to love one another.