 | George Bowen - 1879 - 298 pàgines
...nothing less than absolute perfection is required of those who would be called the children of God. " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." At a later period we find our Lord varying the words of our text thus : " Heaven and earth may pass... | |
 | Joel Tiffany - 1881 - 470 pàgines
...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 who is in heaven is perfect. The doctrine herein taught is, that God the Father loves all the children of humanity irrespective... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1881 - 372 pàgines
...His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth His rain on the just and on the unjust. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. In fact, the Matt. vi. 12, 14, Golden Rule is the criterion of character ; our sonhood to God is tested... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pàgines
...be hurried over. Here is an exhortation of Jesus, the most uncompromising that could be uttered, "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father Who is in Heaven is perfect." Have we ever asked ourselves, as individuals, " What is the meaning of it, and what application has... | |
 | John Stock - 1883 - 506 pàgines
...for I am holy" (1 Pet. i. 16). And it is the pattern to which our holiness should be conformed. " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect " (Matt. v. 48). " As He who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation "... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1883 - 350 pàgines
...than that high human-godlike ideal set up for us in the text of the great Teacher when he says, " BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN is PERFECT;" which, as absolute perfection to mortal men is impossible, practically means that it is every man's... | |
 | Lewis George Janes - 1886 - 336 pàgines
...and example for human endeavor in that most exigent and lofty exhortation to noble living, — "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." ,J. »!!-.' Doctrine of the Future Life. The thought of Jesus concerning God, however, • It need... | |
 | 1888 - 600 pàgines
...cared for, cannot be stretched beyond the love of an enemy ; and therefore the closing words are : " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Yet in such a way that God is understood to be perfect as God, and the soul to be perfect as a soul.... | |
 | 1888 - 642 pàgines
...cared for, cannot be stretched beyond the love of an enemy ; and therefore the closing words are : " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Yet in such a way that God is understood to be perfect as God, and the soul to be perfect as a soul.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1889 - 684 pàgines
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. 
