Matthew 5:48
Therefore you must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
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Leviticus 11:44For I am Yahweh your God. You are to keep yourselves holy, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves with any kind of animal that moves about on the ground.
Leviticus 20:26You must be holy, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples, for you belong to me.
Deuteronomy 27:10You must therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God and obey his commandments and statutes that I am commanding you today.”
Psalms 37:37Observe the man of integrity, and mark the upright; 1 there is a good future for a man of peace. 1
Matthew 5:45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Luke 6:40A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be 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 →