| 1911 - 600 pągines
...power. But that is not all: it is his will that all should live lives of holiness. His command is, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." He wills our complete sanctification, in body, in soul, and in spirit. It is only as Christ is made... | |
| Charles Henry Parkhurst - 1913 - 216 pągines
...to warrant going in pursuit of it. So that a good text to preach from, and frequently, too, is, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Much as we may sometimes shrink from laying upon the hearts of our congregations the burden of so exacting... | |
| Jonathan Todd Hobson - 1913 - 136 pągines
...dying man who puts his trust in Him. — Written to his dying father, through John Johnston, 1851. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. — Matt. 5 :48. The Savior, I suppose, did not expect that any human creature could be perfect as... | |
| 1920 - 512 pągines
...you more than others? do not even the publicans so? *Luke 6 :36. Lev. 11 :44 ; Chap. 19 :2. 48 Be you *therefore perfect, even as your Father Who is in Heaven is perfect. *Lev. 11 :44. Chap. 19 :2. Luke 6 :36. CHAPTER 6. II. 1 Take heed that you give not your alms before... | |
| Ralph Kendall Schwab - 1922 - 176 pągines
...ATTAIN TO TRUE HOLINESS OF HEART EVEN IN THIS LIFE The Lord Jesus expressly saith, Matt. V, 48. 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.' And the Apostle expressly exhorts, I Thess. V, 16, 17, 18. 'Rejoice evermore; pray without ceasing;... | |
| World's Student Christian Federation - 1913 - 534 pągines
...we have been content with a shrivelled and inferior character while all the time He called us, "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Is there a single enterprise with which we are associated here this evening that is not again and again... | |
| Disciple of the Master - 1996 - 222 pągines
...thou attain to peace. Better is it to endure sorrow, than to inflict it on those who are weaker. 18 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father Who is in heaven is perfect. CHAPTER XXVI. GOOD DEEDS TO BE DONE IN SECRET. WB SHOULD NOT JCOUBN FOE THE DEAD, BUT FRAY FOB THEIR... | |
| Johanna Manley - 1997 - 926 pągines
...but to the end that the result of our resemblance should not redound to the praise of another. "Be therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect" (Mt. 5:48). Do you see in what [sense] the Lord has given us what is in His likeness? "For He makes... | |
| Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - 1998 - 518 pągines
...with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour as thyself. Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Father, who is in heaven, is perfect.' Such is the teaching of Christ. The verification of the fulfilment of external religious teachings... | |
| Yi-Fu Tuan - 1998 - 274 pągines
...if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Don't even the publicans do so? Be therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5.43-48) The ethical extremism of this passage is too easily passed over. We forget that to... | |
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