Matthew 5:48

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
  • Jas 1:4 : 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct; 16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."
  • Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
  • Deut 18:13 : 13 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before me and be perfect.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • Luke 6:36 : 36 Be therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
  • Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Be therefore followers of God, as beloved children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Phil 3:12-15 : 12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us, therefore, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.
  • Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am the LORD your God: therefore you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: nor shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete 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 And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
  • Job 1:1-3 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and avoided evil. 2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright, for the end of that man is peace.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
  • Luke 6:40 : 40 The disciple is not above his master: but everyone who is perfect shall be as his master.
  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we are glad when we are weak, and you are strong; and this also we wish, even your perfection.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

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