Ephesians 5:1

Ephesians 5:1
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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Proverbs 16:32
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

1 John 3:1
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

1 John 4:16
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

2 Corinthians 8:8
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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John 8:12
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 21:22
Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

Revelation 14:4
These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

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Ephesians 5:5
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Ephesians 5:7
Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

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Philippians 2:5
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

1 Thessalonians 1:6
You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

2 Thessalonians 3:9
This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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