Matthew 5:48
Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
In Context
47And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?
Cross References
Leviticus 11:44For I am the Lord your God: be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.
Leviticus 20:26You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
Deuteronomy 27:10Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices which I command thee.
Psalms 37:37Keep innocence, and behold justice : for there are remnants for the peaceable man.
Matthew 5:45That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.
Luke 6:40The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.
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 →