Matthew 5:48

The Sermon On The Mount: Love For Enemies

⁴⁷ And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing out of the ordinary? Don’t even the Gentiles do the same? ⁴⁸ Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Father in Heaven

Heavenly Father

Our Father in Heaven

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

Colossians 1:28

We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in My presence and be blameless.

Deuteronomy 18:13

You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

Luke 6:36

Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completing our sanctification in the fear of God.

Philippians 3:12-15

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

James 1:4

But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

1 Peter 1:15-16

But as the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;

Leviticus 11:44

For I am Yahweh your God, so you must consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.

Leviticus 20:26

You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.

Job 1:1-3

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of perfect integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

Psalm 37:37

Watch the blameless and observe the upright,
for the man of peace will have a future.

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Luke 6:40

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

2 Corinthians 13:9

In fact, we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray that you become fully mature.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Become mature, be encouraged, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ephesians 5:1-2

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—