Matthew 5:48
Therefore, be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
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In The King James Version
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 11:44For I am the Lord your God. Be holy, for I am Holy. Do not pollute your souls with any creeping thing, which moves across the land.
Leviticus 20:26You shall be holy unto me, because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples, so that you would be mine.
Deuteronomy 27:10You shall listen to his voice, and you shall do the commandments and justices, which I am entrusting to you.”
Matthew 5:45In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.
Luke 6:40The disciple is not above his teacher. But each one will be perfected, if he is like 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 →