Matthew 5:48

Easy To Read Version

So you must be perfect, the same as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. The Lord said, “I am God All-Powerful. [91] Do these things for me: Obey me and live the right way.

2 Samuel 22:31

God’s power is complete. [140] The Lord’s word has been tested. He protects people who trust him.

Psalm 37:37

Be pure and honest.\par Peace loving people\par will have many descendants.\par

Leviticus 11:44

Why? Because I am the Lord your God! I am holy, so you should keep yourselves holy! Don’t make yourselves unclean with those crawling things!

Leviticus 19:2

“Tell all the people of Israel: I am the Lord your God! I am holy, so you must be holy!

Leviticus 20:26

I have made you my special people. So you must be holy for me! Why? Because I am the Lord, and I am holy!

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that people will see the good things you do. Live so that people will praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:45

If you do this, then you will be true sons of your Father in heaven. Your Father lets the sun rise for the good people and the bad people. Your Father sends rain to people that do good and to people that do wrong.

Matthew 5:47

And if you are nice only to your friends, then you are no better than other people. Even the people without God are nice to their friends.

Luke 6:36

Give love and mercy the same as your Father gives love and mercy.

Luke 6:40

A student is not better than his teacher. But when the student has fully learned, then he will be like his teacher.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Now, brothers and sisters, I say good-bye. Try to be perfect. Do the things I have asked you to do. Agree in your minds with each other, and live in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:9

We are happy to be weak, if you are strong. And we pray that you will grow stronger and stronger.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises \{from God\}. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. We should try to become perfect in the way we live, because we respect God.

Ephesians 3:1

So I (Paul) am a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am a prisoner for you people who are not Jews.

Deuteronomy 18:13

You must be faithful to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:10

So you must do everything that the Lord your God tells you. You must obey his commands and his laws that I am giving you today.”

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras also says hello. He is a servant of Jesus Christ. And he is from your group. He always prays for you. He prays that you will grow to be spiritually mature (perfect) and have everything that God wants for you.

James 1:4

Let that patience work in you to give the result God wants. Then you will be mature and complete. You will be all that God wants you to be.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure. And every person who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure like Christ.