Matthew 5:48 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴⁸ Be not you therefore like to them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before you ask him.

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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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Matthew 5:48 Cross References

Genesis 17:1

And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

2 Samuel 22:31

6 Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.

Psalm 37:37

For my iniquities are gone over my head : and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Leviticus 11:44

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of the separation of her flowers.

Leviticus 19:2

If after two days ally man eat thereof, he shall be profane and guilty of impiety:

Leviticus 20:26

But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.

Matthew 5:16

4 Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother: and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift.

Matthew 5:45

And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 5:47

And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.

Luke 6:36

4 For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns; nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.

Luke 6:40

8 He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock. And when a flood came, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and it could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock.

2 Corinthians 13:11

I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.

2 Corinthians 13:9

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

2 Corinthians 7:1

0 For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Ephesians 3:1

0 That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,

Deuteronomy 18:13

8 m I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Deuteronomy 27:10

5 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

Colossians 1:28

Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ:

Colossians 4:12

Being mindful of the work of your faith, and labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father:

James 1:4

3 Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.

1 John 3:3

2 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.