48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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48 You, therefore, must be perfect [growing into complete [a]maturity of godliness in mind and character, [b]having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity], as your heavenly Father is perfect.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:48 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies in the New Testament.
  2. Matthew 5:48 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

48 But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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