Ephesians 5:1
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1 John 4:11
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11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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1 Peter 1:15-16
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15 but (A)as he who called you is holy, you also be holy (B)in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, (C)“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
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Matthew 5:48
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48 (A)You therefore must be (B)perfect, (C)as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Ephesians 4:32
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32 (A)Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, (B)forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
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Luke 6:35-36
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Leviticus 11:45
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45 (A)For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. (B)You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
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1 John 3:1-2
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3 See (A)what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called (B)children of God; and so we are. The reason why (C)the world does not know us is that (D)it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are (E)God's children (F)now, and what we will be (G)has not yet appeared; but we know that (H)when he appears[a] (I)we shall be like him, because (J)we shall see him as he is.
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- 1 John 3:2 Or when it appears
John 1:12
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12 But to all who did receive him, (A)who believed in his name, (B)he gave the right (C)to become (D)children of God,
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Matthew 5:45
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45 (A)so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and (B)sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
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Jeremiah 31:20
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20 (A)Is Ephraim my dear son?
(B)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
(C)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels
Hosea 1:10
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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”
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- Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
- Hosea 1:10 Or Sons
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