Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 5:48 in context
Matthew 5:45–48
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that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
46
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
47
If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
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Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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