Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
1 I urge you, then - I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord: live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.
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As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
2 Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.
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Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
3 Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.
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Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope to which God has called you.
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There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
5 There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
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one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6 there is one God and Father of all people, who is Lord of all, works through all, and is in all.
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one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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