Matthew 5:48
You will therefore be perfect, as your Father who [is] in the heavens is perfect.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
In Context
47And if you may greet your brothers only, what do you do abundant? Do the nations not also do so?
Cross References
Leviticus 11:44For I [am] your God YHWH, and you have sanctified yourselves, and you have been holy, for I [am] holy; and you do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;
Leviticus 20:26And you have been holy to Me, for I, YHWH, [am] holy; and I separate you from the peoples to become Mine.
Deuteronomy 27:10and you have listened to the voice of your God YHWH, and done His commands and His statutes which I am commanding you today.”
Psalms 37:37Observe the perfect, and see the upright, || For the latter end of each [is] peace.
Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because He causes His sun to rise on evil and good, and He sends rain on righteous and unrighteous.
Luke 6:40A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone perfected 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 →