Matthew 5:48 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁸ Therefore, be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁸ Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁸ You, therefore, must be perfect [growing into complete maturity of godliness in mind and character, having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity], as your heavenly Father is perfect. [Lev. 19:2, 18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁸ Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ Therefore, just as your heavenly Father is complete in showing love to everyone, so also you must be complete.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁸ Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.

English Standard Version 2016

⁴⁸ You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Matthew 5:48 Cross References

Genesis 17:1

In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: "I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.

2 Samuel 22:31

God, his way is immaculate; the eloquence of the Lord is an exacting fire. He is the shield of all who hope in him.

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God. Be holy, for I am Holy. Do not pollute your souls with any creeping thing, which moves across the land.

Leviticus 19:2

Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy unto me, because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples, so that you would be mine.

Matthew 5:16

So then, let your light shine in the sight of men, so that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:45

In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.

Matthew 5:47

And if you greet only your brothers, what more have you done? Do not even the pagans behave this way?

Luke 6:36

Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father is also merciful.

Luke 6:40

The disciple is not above his teacher. But each one will be perfected, if he is like his teacher.

2 Corinthians 13:11

As to the rest, brothers, rejoice, be perfect, be encouraged, have the same mind, have peace. And so the God of peace and love will be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:9

For we rejoice that we are weak, while you are strong. This is also what we pray for: your perfection.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, having these promises, most beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Ephesians 3:1

By reason of this grace, I, Paul, am a prisoner of Jesus Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles.

Deuteronomy 18:13

You shall be perfect and without blemish with the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:10

You shall listen to his voice, and you shall do the commandments and justices, which I am entrusting to you."

Colossians 1:28

We are announcing him, correcting every man and teaching every man, with all wisdom, so that we may offer every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras greets you, who is from among you, a servant of Christ Jesus, ever solicitous for you in prayer, so that you may stand, perfect and complete, in the entire will of God.

James 1:4

and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who holds this hope in him, keeps himself holy, just as he also is holy.