Ephesians 4:1

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Summary

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Beseech

Vocation

General references

1 Corinthians 16:14

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

Beseech

And Jeremiah said, They shall not give thee over. Hearken, I beseech thee, unto the voice of Jehovah, in that which I speak unto thee; so shall it be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.

We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, when present am mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

Be as I am, for I also am as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Vocation

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power,

who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time,

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:

As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue,

General references

Let all things ye do be done in love.

so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;