Matthew 5:48
Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
In Context
47And if ye only greet your friends, what do ye extra? Do not even the tax collectors this way?
Cross References
Leviticus 11:44For I am LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and become ye holy, since I am holy. Neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves upon the earth.
Leviticus 20:26And ye shall be holy to me, for I, LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
Deuteronomy 27:10Thou shall therefore obey the voice of LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Psalms 37:37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
Matthew 5:45so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Luke 6:40A disciple is not above his teacher, but every disciple who is fully developed will be as his teacher.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:44-48
The Sermon on the Mount. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do… Read the whole commentary →