Matthew 5:48

Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. It sets God's own character as the standard of love and righteousness.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Pet 1:15–16But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
• Jas 1:4Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
• Lev 19:2“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
• Deut 18:13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
• Luke 6:36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
• Eph 5:1–2Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
• 1 Jn 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• Col 1:28We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
• Luke 6:40A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Matt 5:16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
• Lev 11:44For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
• Lev 20:26You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
• Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
• Job 1:1–3There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
• Phil 3:12–15Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
• Matt 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
• Ps 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
• 2 Cor 13:9In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.
• Eph 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...

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