36 (A)Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

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36 Be merciful,(A) just as your Father(B) is merciful.

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48 (A)Therefore you shall be perfect, just (B)as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.(A)

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Walk in Love

Therefore(A) be imitators of God as dear (B)children. And (C)walk in love, (D)as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God (E)for a sweet-smelling aroma.

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Follow God’s example,(A) therefore, as dearly loved children(B) and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us(C) and gave himself up for us(D) as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.(E)

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15 (A)but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, (B)“Be holy, for I am holy.”

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15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;(A) 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:16 Lev. 11:44,45; 19:2

31 (A)Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, [a]clamor, and (B)evil speaking be put away from you, (C)with all malice.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:31 loud quarreling

31 Get rid of(A) all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.(B)

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