⁴⁸ Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.

² Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

¹⁵ But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

¹⁶ Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

⁴ But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

²⁸ Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;

¹³ You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

³⁶ Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

¹ Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

¹ Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

¹² Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

¹³ Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,

¹⁴ I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

²⁶ And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

² And he had seven sons and three daughters.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

³⁷ Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

¹⁶ Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

⁴⁵ So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

⁴⁰ The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.

⁹ For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.

¹¹ Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

³ And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

¹ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,