“ Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. ”
Be ye therefore perfect ... - The Saviour concludes this part of the discourse by commanding his disciples to be “perfect.” This word commonly means “finished, complete, pure, holy.” Originally,...
Loving One's Neighbour ( cf. Luke 6:27 f., Matthew 5:32-36 ).Thou shalt love thy neighbour ( i.e. fellow Israelite) is the precept of the Law ( Leviticus 19:18 ); and hate thine enemy is a Rab...
perfect. In thus acting on the principles of grace, in conformity with the laws of the kingdom here promulgated. Greek. teleios. See App-125. your... heaven. All the texts read "your heavenly...
48. You shall therefore be perfect. This perfection does not mean equality, but relates solely to resemblance. (423) However distant we are from the perfection of God, we are said to...
DISCOURSE: 1309 LOVE TO ENEMIES ENJOINED Matthew 5:43-48 . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless...
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Be ye therefore perfect - as your Father - God himself is the grand law, sole giver, and only pattern of the perfection whi...
Be ye therefore perfect, &c.— Father Hardouin observes, that this might be rendered, agreeably to the Greek, You shall therefore be perfect, so as to contain a promise, and not an exhortation...
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Be ye therefore, х Esesthe ( G2071 ) oun ( G3767 )] - rather, 'Ye shall therefore be,' or 'Ye are therefor...
The Sermon on the Mount John 5:1 to John 7:29 . The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20 . This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke ( Luke 6:20 ), that it is best to regard t...
Be ye therefore perfect. — Literally, Ye therefore shall be perfect — the ideal future that implies an imperative. Your Father which is in heaven. — The better reading gives, your heavenly Fa...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Brotherly Relationship Matthew 5:38-48 In mentioning the second mile, our Lord refers to a well-known Eastern custom of forwarding messages by relays of forced labor. We leave our homes on a gi...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
Was there ever such a refinement of the most perfect law of the LORD as is here drawn? And where shall we look for the fulfilment of it but in the Lord JESUS himself? He indeed, and He only, observed...
MORAL PERFECTION ‘Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.’ Matthew 5:48 If we are apt to grow self-complacent, to thank God we are not as other men are, b...
Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father ,.... This perfection is to be restrained to the subject Christ is upon, love to men, and not to be referred to any, or every other thing; wherefore, in Luke...
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Ver. 48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, &c. ] The child (saith one) is the father multiplied, the fa...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
The Sermon on the Mount. 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I s...
Perfect here is not taken in that sense as it is taken in other texts of Scripture, where it signifieth sincerity and uprightness, as Job 2:3 , or where it signifieth a comparative perfection, a...
The Disciples Are To Love Even Their Enemies And Are To Seek To Be Perfect Even As Their Father in Heaven Is Perfect (5:43-48). Jesus has been slowly building up to this final revelation of the lo...
CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
perfect The word implies full development, growth into maturity of godliness, not sinless perfection. ( Ephesians 4:12-13 ). In this passage the Father's kindness, not His sinlessness, is the...
Matthew 5:43-48 I. Our Lord does not say here that all men are to be equally dear to us, or equally esteemed by us. He does not substitute a vague principle of universal philanthropy in the room o...
Matthew 5:17 . Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testame...
Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
Perfect. I. What is not to be understood by this requirement, or what Christian perfection is not. Not perfection of knowledge, freedom from temptation, conflict, etc. II. What is the perfectio...
EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
A summary of this section: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Since all these arguments must be accepted, and since love is the fulfillment of the Law, the...
1 John 3:3 ; 1 Peter 1:15 ; 1 Peter 1:16 ; 2 Corinthians 13:11 ; 2 Corinthians 13:9 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; Colossians 1:28 ; Colossians 4:12 ; Deuteronomy 18:13 ; Ephesians 3:1 ; Ephesians...
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is o...
Therefore ye shall be perfect; as your Father who is in heaven is perfect — So the original runs, referring to all that holiness which is described in the foregoing verses, which our Lord in the be...