You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
- BSB You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
- NKJV You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.
- NASB You are to be blameless before the Lord your God.
- NLT But you must be blameless before the Lord your God.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Matt 5:48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
- Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Gen 6:9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Ps 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
- Phil 3:12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
- Job 1:8Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
- Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
- Phil 3:15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
- Rev 3:2Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
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