📝 Be perfect
This study lists scriptures on the command to be perfect.
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🎓 Instruction
Psalms 37:37
- Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Commanded to be perfect
Deuteronomy 18:13
- Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
Matthew 5:48
- Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
2 Corinthians 13:11
- Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
2 Timothy 3:17
- That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
The law made nothing perfect
Hebrews 7:19
- For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews 10:1
- For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Hebrews 11:39-40
- And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
- God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Made perfect by God in Christ Jesus
2 Samuel 22:33
- God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
Matthew 19:21
- Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
John 17:23
- I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Colossians 1:28
- Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Hebrews 13:20-21
- Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
- Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 5:10
- But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Warning
Galatians 3:3
- Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
1 John 4:17-18
- Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Do
Philippians 4:9
- Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
James 1:4
- But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 3:2
- For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Matthew 5:44-48
- But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
- That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
- For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
- And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
- Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
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