Matthew 5:48

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

What I am saying is that you must be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Cross References

James 1:4

If you let that patience work in you, the end result will be good. You will be mature and complete. You will be all that God wants you to be.

Leviticus 19:2

“Tell all the Israelites: I am the Lord your God. I am holy, so you must be holy.

Luke 6:36

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

Deuteronomy 18:13

You must be faithful to the Lord your God, never doing anything he considers wrong.

Colossians 1:28

So we continue to tell people about Christ. We use all wisdom to counsel every person and teach every person. We are trying to bring everyone before God as people who have grown to be spiritually mature in Christ.

1 John 3:3

He is pure, and everyone who has this hope in him keeps themselves pure like Christ.

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. Our respect for God should make us try to be completely holy in the way we live.

Luke 6:40

Students are not better than their teacher. But when they have been fully taught, they will be like their teacher.

Matthew 5:16

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

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, “I am God All-Powerful. Obey me and live the right way.

Leviticus 11:44

because I am the Lord your God. I am holy, so you should keep yourselves holy. Don’t make yourselves unclean with these crawling things.

Leviticus 20:26

I have separated you from other nations to be my own special people. So you must be holy because I am the Lord, and I am holy.

Matthew 5:45

If you do this, you will be children who are truly like your Father in heaven. He lets the sun rise for all people, whether they are good or bad. He sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, another servant of Jesus Christ from your group, sends his greetings. He constantly struggles for you in prayer. He prays that you will grow to be spiritually mature and have everything that God wants for you.

2 Corinthians 13:9

We are happy to be weak if you are strong. And this is what we pray—that your lives will be made completely right again.

Psalm 37:37

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

2 Corinthians 13:11

Now, brothers and sisters, be filled with joy. Try to make everything right, and do what I have asked you to do. Agree with each other, and live in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ephesians 3:1

So I, Paul, am a prisoner because I serve Christ Jesus for you who are not Jews.

2 Samuel 22:31

God’s way is perfect. The Lord’s promise always proves to be true. He protects those who trust in him.

Matthew 5:47

And if you are nice only to your friends, you are no better than anyone else. Even the people who don’t know God are nice to their friends.

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.”