Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.

所以，你们该效法神，好像蒙慈爱的儿女一样。

所以，作为蒙慈爱的儿女，你们该效法上帝。

所以，作为蒙慈爱的儿女，你们该效法神。

因此，你们既然是上帝疼爱的儿女，就要效法上帝。

因此，你们既然是蒙爱的儿女，就应当效法神。

所以，做为蒙爱的儿女，你们要效法神；

所以，你們該效法神，好像蒙慈愛的兒女一樣。

所以，作為蒙慈愛的兒女，你們該效法上帝。

所以，作為蒙慈愛的兒女，你們該效法神。

因此，你們既然是上帝疼愛的兒女，就要效法上帝。

因此，你們既然是蒙愛的兒女，就應當效法神。

所以你們要效法上帝，做蒙愛的兒女；

所以，做為蒙愛的兒女，你們要效法神；

故爾當效上帝、如愛子然、

爾為上帝愛子、當效上帝、

爾為天主所愛之子、當效天主、

爾等既為蒙寵兒女、自當效法天主、

Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children

You are the children that God dearly loves. So follow his example.

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children,

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.For the Scriptures say,“ You must be holy because I am holy.”

“ Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked.You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.

Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

For I, the Lord, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Therefore, you must be holy because I am holy.

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

“ Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?” says the Lord.“ I often have to punish him, but I still love him. That’s why I long for him and surely will have mercy on him.

“ Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore— too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told,‘ You are not my people,’ it will be said,‘ You are children of the living God.’

In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.