Matthew 5:48
ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who [is] in the heavens is perfect.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
In Context
47and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?
Cross References
Leviticus 11:44'For I [am] Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;
Leviticus 20:26and ye have been holy to Me; for holy [am] I, Jehovah; and I separate you from the peoples to become Mine.
Deuteronomy 27:10and thou hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and done His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day.'
Psalms 37:37Observe the perfect, and see the upright, For the latter end of each [is] peace.
Matthew 5:45that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.
Luke 6:40A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one 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 →