[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 5:48, “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”[/FONT]
“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]perfect” is word #5046 – teleios: having reached its end, i.e. complete, by ext. perfect, Original Word: τέλειος, α, ον, Part of Speech: Adjective, Transliteration: teleios, Phonetic Spelling: (tel'-i-os), Short Definition: perfect, full-grown, Definition: perfect, (a) complete in all its parts, (b) full grown, of full age, (c) specially of the completeness of Christian character.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Genesis 17:1, “And it came to be when Aḇram was ninety-nine years old, that [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]appeared to Aḇram and said to him, “I am Strength Almighty – walk before Me and be perfect.”[/FONT]
“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]perfect” is word #H8549 [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]תָּמִים [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]tamiym (taw-meem') adj., 1. (literally, figuratively or morally) entire., 2. (also, as noun) integrity, truth., [from H8552], KJV: without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly), whole. , Root(s): H8552 [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalms 119:1, “Blessed are the perfect in the way, Who walk in the Torah of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]!”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 John 2:5, But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Yah has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 Peter/Kepha 1:13-21, "Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the undeserved pardon that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Yahshua Messiah. As obedient children, do not conform to the former lusts you had when you lived in ignorance; But as He Who called you is holy, so you also become holy in all your conduct; Because it is written Be holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father, Who, without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your sojourning here in reverence; Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver or gold, from your idolatrous way of life handed down to you by tradition from your forefathers; But with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot; Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you; Who through Him we do believe in YHWH, Who raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in YHWH."[/FONT]
“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]holy” is word #G40 ἅγιος hagios (ha'-ǰiy-os) adj., 1. holy (set apart by Yahweh God unto himself and apart from the world)., 2. (of a person) a holy one., 3. (physically or ceremonially) clean., 4. (morally) blameless., 5. (Note #1) Most explicitly, this is not “a saint” (compare G2413), which denotes a personal, continual lifelong effort to attain such a stature and position of recognized character, along with a formal recognition by the Roman Catholic Church (and variants) and all its stipulations. In fact, Holiness is intrinsic to Yahweh alone, and He works it in those who fear Him and diligently choose to cooperate with Him and His workings. Though one may indeed act upon his command to be holy, he alone can ascribe one as Holy., 6. (Note #2) Most especially, the Redeemed Kinsmen through trust in Jesus Anointed are indeed the holy ones of Yahweh God, with Jesus himself being the Holy One of God (and we ourselves, his redeemed brothers)., [from hagos “an awful thing”], KJV: (most) holy (one, thing), saint , Compare: G53, G2413, G3741 , See also: H6918[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 Peter 1:13-16, “Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your expectation perfectly upon the favor that is to be brought to you at the revelation of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהושע [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Messiah, as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance, instead, as the One who called you is set-apart, so you also should become set-apart in all behavior, because it has been written, “Be set-apart, for I am set-apart.”[/FONT]
