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, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
• Jas 1:4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
• Lev 19:2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
• Deut 18:13You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
• Luke 6:36“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
• Eph 5:1–2Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Col 1:28whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
• Luke 6:40A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Matt 5:16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
• Lev 11:44For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
• Lev 20:26You shall be holy to me; for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
• 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.
• Job 1:1–3There 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 3:12–15Not 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.
• Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
• Ps 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
• 2 Cor 13:9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Eph 3:1For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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