⁴⁸ Therefore ^(A)you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

^36 [a]Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

^2 (A)Beloved, now we are ^(B)children of God, and ^(C)it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He ^(D)appears, we will be ^(E)like Him, because we will ^(F)see Him just as He is. ³ And everyone who has this ^(G)hope set on Him ^(H)purifies himself, just as He is pure.

¹⁵ but ^[a](A)like the Holy One who called you, ^[b](B)be holy yourselves also ^(C)in all your behavior;

⁶ the one who says that he ^(A)remains in Him ^(B)ought, himself also, walk just as He walked.

¹⁷ By this, ^(A)love is perfected with us, so that we may have ^(B)confidence in ^(C)the day of judgment; because ^(D)as He is, we also are in this world.