Ephesians 5:1

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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.

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

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

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

We love him, because he first loved us.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

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

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

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.’

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

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

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.