Copy God, then, as his beloved children,
Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.
be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.
You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper —
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,
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.
so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;
