Imitators of God
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32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 4:32 - 5:2 ESV
Ephesians 4:1 ESV - 1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
1. Paul’s Plea
Ephesians 4:31 ESV - 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV - Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
2. Paul’s Pattern
Ephesians 5:2 ESV - 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Romans 5:8 ESV - 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:10 ESV - 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John 15:13 ESV - 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Philippians 2:6-8 ESV - 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV - 8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.