Matthew 5:48

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Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Speak to the entire assembly of the Israelites and tell them: 'Be holy, because I, the LORD your God, am holy.'
  • Jas 1:4 : 4 Let perseverance complete its work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But just as the One who called you is holy, so also be holy in all your conduct. 16 For it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
  • Col 1:28 : 28 We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
  • Deut 18:13 : 13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before Me faithfully and be blameless."
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God.
  • Luke 6:36 : 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
  • Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.
  • Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves with any of the swarming creatures that move along the ground.
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
  • Lev 20:26 : 26 You shall be holy to me, for I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the peoples to be mine.
  • Job 1:1-3 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and turned away from evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters born to him. 3 His wealth consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household. He was the greatest man among all the people of the east.
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Observe the blameless and consider the upright, for there is a future for the person of peace.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may become children of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
  • Luke 6:40 : 40 The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.
  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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