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

But Jeremiah said, “They will not give you over. Please

obey the Lord in what I am saying to you, that it may go well with you and

you may live.

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—

Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

I beg of you, brethren, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong;

yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

Vocation

There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;

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

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will

count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power,

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

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

not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

General references

Let all that you do be done in love.

so that my

imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,