Matthew 5:48

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

⁴⁷ And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same? ⁴⁸ Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Father in Heaven

Heavenly Father

Our Father in Heaven

Leviticus 19:2

Speak unto all the assembly of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Holy shall ye be, for I Jehovah your God am holy.

Colossians 1:28

whom we announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

Genesis 17:1

And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

Deuteronomy 18:13

Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.

Luke 6:36

Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.

Philippians 3:12-15

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

James 1:4

But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 Peter 1:15-16

but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation;

Leviticus 11:44

For I am Jehovah your God; and ye shall hallow yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean through any manner of crawling thing which creepeth on the earth.

Leviticus 20:26

And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine.

Job 1:1-3

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.

Psalm 37:37

Mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace;

Matthew 5:16

Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

Matthew 5:45

that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

Luke 6:40

The disciple is not above his teacher, but every one that is perfected shall be as his teacher.

2 Corinthians 13:9

For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

2 Corinthians 13:11

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Ephesians 5:1-2

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

1 John 3:3

And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,