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 entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

I beg you then to imitate my example.

On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

yet for love's sake, I rather beseech you, I, Paul, an old man, and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus!

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

And now I am entreating you, Lady, not as though I were writing some new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning, let us love one another.

Vocation

There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called??o inherit a blessing.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.

General references

Let all that you do be done in love.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;