Ephesians 5:1
Copy God, then, as his beloved children,
Matthew 5:48
You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Ephesians 4:32
be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.
Colossians 3:12
As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.
1 Peter 1:15-16
as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct ??16 for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.
John 1:12
On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,
Luke 6:35-36
No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.
1 John 3:1-2
'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.
1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.
Matthew 5:45
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.