Colossians 3:12

As God's chosen and beloved, believers should clothe themselves in compassion, kindness, humility, and patience. The new life is adorned with Christlike virtues.

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• Eph 4:32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
• Eph 4:2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• 2 Pet 1:5–8And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Col 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• 2 Pet 1:10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
• Jas 3:17–18But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Pet 3:8–11Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• Rom 12:9–10Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• 1 Th 5:15See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
• 1 Jn 3:14–20We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• 2 Cor 6:6By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
• Jer 31:3The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
• 1 Th 1:3–6Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• Gal 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• Ezek 16:8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Matt 24:31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
• Titus 3:4–6But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
• Phil 2:1–4If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
• 1 Pet 1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Rom 1:7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
• Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
• Eph 4:24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
• Mark 13:27And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
• Isa 42:1Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
• Luke 1:78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
• Phil 1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• Mark 13:22For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
• Isa 65:9And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
• Isa 45:4For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
• Eph 2:4–5But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
• Rom 8:29–33For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Rom 11:5–7Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Matt 24:22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
• Eph 1:4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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