Walk in Love

5 ^(A)Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

^48 (A)You therefore must be ^(B)perfect, ^(C)as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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

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.”

^32 (A)Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, ^(B)forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

³⁵ But ^(A)love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and ^(B)you will be sons of ^(C)the Most High, for ^(D)he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. ^36 (E)Be merciful, even as ^(F)your Father is merciful.

^12 (A)Put on then, as ^(B)God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, ^(C)compassionate hearts, ^(D)kindness, ^(E)humility, meekness, and patience,

^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.”

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.