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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul continues to tell the believers how they should and should not live as God's children.
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# Therefore be imitators of God
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"Therefore you should do what God does." Therefore refers back to [Ephesians 4:32](../04/32.md) which tells why believers should imitate God, because Christ forgave believers.
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# as dearly loved children
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God desires us to imitate or follow him since we are his children. AT: "as dearly loved children imitate their fathers" or "because you are his children and he loves you dearly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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