Bible Dictionary: Perfection: God's Perfection the Standard of

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 5:48
Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Christian Perfection
... sect holiness is below the Bible standard, for it ... adherence to the teachings of God's
word this ... The difference between present and future perfection.= In his ...
/.../byers/sanctification/chapter viii christian perfection.htm

Steadfast unto the End
... godliness. God calls upon us to reach the standard of perfection and places
before us the example of Christ's character. In His ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 52 steadfast unto the.htm

Christian Perfection
... now set up on earth; concerning which the Spirit of God declared of old, (so far
is David from being the pattern or standard of Christian perfection,) "He that ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 40 christian perfection.htm

Whether the Gifts are Necessary to Man for Salvation?
... to a perfection surpassing the ordinary standard of virtue; because such perfection
falls, not ... that he behave well in matters concerning God and matters ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the gifts are necessary.htm

The Way from Sin to Perfect Salvation.
... God's Perfection Is The Standard Of Christian Perfection. "Be ye therefore perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Mat.5:48. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter v the way from.htm

Note C. The Holiness of God.
... so easy to define what the perfection of any ... content with very general terms defining
God's Holiness as ... Jehovah makes Himself the absolute standard of Himself ...
//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy in christ/note c the holiness of.htm

Waiting Faith Rewarded and Strengthened by New Revelations
... spring from the double realisation of God's almightiness, and ... The standard of aspiration
and effort cannot be ... aims set fixedly towards ideal perfection, and to ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture k/waiting faith rewarded and strengthened.htm

God's Love Magnified in Christ's Death.
... it implies an idea of the highest perfection; and this ... attaining to before the Son
of God appeared on ... What was the standard with which they compared themselves ...
/.../selected sermons of schleiermacher/xxii gods love magnified in.htm

Prayer and a Definite Religious Standard
... by the Holy Spirit that we are the children of God. ... Without a high standard before
us to be gained, for ... of Christ, let us go on unto perfection." The present ...
/.../bounds/the essentials of prayer/ix prayer and a definite.htm

The Sermon on the Mount.
... emphasizes the particular characteristic of God's perfection which Jesus ... God can
not be satisfied with that which ... Our standard is not the perfection of great ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xlii the sermon on the 4.htm