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.
Matthew 5:48 - Easy To Read Version So you must be perfect, the same as your Father in heaven is perfect. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Common English Bible Therefore, just as your heavenly Father is complete in showing love to everyone, so also you must be complete. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect. |
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.
God’s power is complete. [140] The Lord’s word has been tested. He protects people who trust him.
Be pure and honest.\par Peace loving people\par will have many descendants.\par
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!
“Tell all the people of Israel: I am the Lord your God! I am holy, so you must be holy!
I have made you my special people. So you must be holy for me! Why? Because I am the Lord, and I am holy!
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.
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.
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.
A student is not better than his teacher. But when the student has fully learned, then he will be like his teacher.
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.
We are happy to be weak, if you are strong. And we pray that you will grow stronger and stronger.
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.
So I (Paul) am a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am a prisoner for you people who are not Jews.
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.”
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.
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.
Christ is pure. And every person who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure like Christ.