Love Your Enemies
Matthew 5:48
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- KJV
- Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
- WEB
- Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
- ASV
- Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- LSV
- You will therefore be perfect, as your Father who [is] in the heavens is perfect.”
- YLT
- ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who [is] in the heavens is perfect.
- DBY
- Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- DRC
- Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.
- GNV
- Ye shall therefore be perfit, as your Father which is in heauen, is perfite.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ὡς (“how”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ὥσπερ (“as”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read οὐράνιος (“Heavenly”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς (“in the heavens”).
SBLGNT apparatus (2)
A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.
- SBLGNT: ὡς. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ὡς; Robinson–Pierpont read ὥσπερ.
- SBLGNT: οὐράνιος. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read οὐράνιος; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Ἔσεσθε οὖν ὑμεῖς τέλειοι ὡς ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ οὐράνιος τέλειός ἐστιν.
- RP2018
- Ἔσεσθε οὖν ὑμεῖς τέλειοι, ὥσπερ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς τέλειός ἐστιν.
- TR-Boyd
- Ἔσεσθε οὖν ὑμεῖς τέλειοι, ὥσπερ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς τέλειός ἐστι.
- SCR1894
- εσεσθε ουν υμεις τελειοι ωσπερ ο πατηρ υμων ο εν τοις ουρανοις τελειος εστιν
Who and where
👤 God◆ Sermon on the Mount
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
GodPerfectionSermon on the mountSermon on the Plain, TheSermonGood, ChiefEnemyBeg; Beggar; BeggingEthics of JesusForgiveness
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Peter 1:15–16But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
- James 1:4Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
- Leviticus 19:2“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
- Ephesians 5:1–2Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Deuteronomy 18:13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
- Luke 6:36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- 1 John 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
- Colossians 1:28We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
- Luke 6:40A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Matthew 5:16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
- Leviticus 11:44For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Leviticus 20:26You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
- Job 1:1–3There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of…
- Philippians 3:12–15Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.…
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).