 | John Greene - 1834 - 400 pàgines
...his sun to shine on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.—Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect" Accordingly the apostle John has given us a most sublime description of the love of God, when he says,... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1835 - 568 pàgines
...children of your Father who is in heaven ; for he sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust, &c. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who- is in heaven is perfect?" Who can read these words and not see, that the perfection which Christ preaches, is a perfection of... | |
 | W. Wilson - 1835 - 408 pàgines
...will be our guide even unto death." Study to be like God in wisdom. Our blessed Lord exhorts, " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." We should study to resemble God in all his i mi table perfections, and particularly in his wisdom.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1837 - 320 pàgines
...Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before me, and he thou perfect. Matt. v. 48: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. — See Deut. xviii. 13. Matt. xix. 21. 2 Cor. xiii. 11. 2 Tim. iii. 17. Heb. vi. 1. James i. 4. et... | |
 | Samuel Horatio Stearns - 1838 - 436 pàgines
...wantonness, — the abuse of a promise as the breach of an oath, — and adds, with solemn authority, " Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Reason also assents to the propriety of the injunction. A perfect law can do no less than require perfect... | |
 | William Alexander - 1839 - 434 pàgines
...elevating the standard of the gospel beyond that of the law, sums up with this memorable saying : "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Are we to suppose that the Redeemer of men enjoined what He knew to be impossible for man to attain... | |
 | 1872 - 516 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." Matt. v. 44 — 48. He thus presents, as a reason for loving our enemies, the perfection of God, which... | |
 | George Peck - 1842 - 494 pàgines
...children of your Father who is in heaven ; for he sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust,' &c. ' Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.' Who can read these words and not see that the perfection which Christ preaches is a perfection of holy... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1844 - 494 pàgines
...it at once by the example of their Lord, and by the precept which He has enjoined on them — " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, who is in heaven, is perfect." If we regard the decalogue as permanent in its character, it follows as a matter of course that the... | |
 | General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America - 1842 - 408 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. TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them : otherwise ye have no reward of... | |
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. 
