³⁶ be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

⁴⁸ ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who `is' in the heavens is perfect.

¹ Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

² and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

¹⁵ but according as He who did call you `is' holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

¹⁶ because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'