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 ⁴⁸ Therefore, be perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect."⁶ [Only the power of God can change a man to perfect, and the completion of His perfection process of you is when Jesus appears to bruise the head of the Satan under your feet. Rom 16:20. We must be righteous as He is righteous, 1 John 3:7. We must be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, Mat 5:48. We must be merciful as He is merciful, Luke 6:36. We must become pure as He is pure. 1 John 3:2-3. But as he who has called you is holy, so you be holy in all manner of conduct, 1 Pet 1:15. As he is, so are we (if not yet, to be) in this world. 1 John 4:17. There is no flexibility and no equivocation in any of these stated requirements.]