Matthew 5:48
Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
In Context
47And if ye salute your friends only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Cross References
Leviticus 11:44For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.
Leviticus 20:26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
Deuteronomy 27:10Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of Jehovah 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 5:45that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
Luke 6:40The disciple is not above his teacher: but everyone when he is perfected shall 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 →