Matthew 5:48

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

⁴⁷ And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing that is remarkable? Do not the Gentiles also do the same? ⁴⁸ Therefore you be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Father in Heaven

Heavenly Father

Our Father in Heaven

Leviticus 19:2

"Speak to all the community of the {Israelites}, and say to them, 'You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, [am] holy.

Colossians 1:28

whom we proclaim, [by] admonishing every person and teaching every person with all wisdom, in order that we may present every person mature in Christ,

Genesis 17:1

When Abram [was] ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I [am] El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless

Deuteronomy 18:13

You must be blameless before Yahweh your God.

Luke 6:36

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.

Philippians 3:12-15

Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is [one] of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

James 1:4

And let endurance have [its] perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 Peter 1:15-16

but as the one who called you [is] holy, [you] yourselves be holy in all [your] conduct,

Leviticus 11:44

because I [am] Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I [am] holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land,

Leviticus 20:26

And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, [am] holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine.

Job 1:1-3

[There] was a man in the land of Uz whose name [was] Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.

Psalm 37:37

Observe [the] blameless and look at [the] upright, for [there is] a future for a man of peace.

Matthew 5:16

In the [same] way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:45

in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Luke 6:40

A disciple is not superior to [his] teacher, but everyone, [when he] is fully trained, will be like his teacher.

2 Corinthians 13:9

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Finally, brothers, rejoice, be restored, be encouraged, {be in agreement}, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ephesians 5:1-2

Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.

Ephesians 3:1

On account of this I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles