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

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

Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me.

We are therefore ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Working together with him, then, we urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

I, Paul, myself urge you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you when I am away!

Brethren, I beg you, 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 yousince 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 your soul.

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

Vocation

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, 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 we always pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and may fulfill every good resolve and work of faith by his power,

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

Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.

Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but give a blessing instead; for to this you were called, that you may inherit a blessing.

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.

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 for Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,