Matthew 5:48
Matthew chapter 5 · verse 48 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Context
v.47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
v.48This passage
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 1:28
whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
- Luke 6:40
The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.
- Ephesians 3:1
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,—
- James 1:4
And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
- Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is ahappyend to the man of peace.