Matthew 5:48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

When doing a bible search on the word perfect, this is the suggested verse.

While I can accept that God is perfect, how do I get there because I have failed so miserably my whole life, including the time I have spent believing by faith in Christ?

What does it mean to be perfect?

Deuteronomy 32:4 “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Isaiah 26:3 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

Hebrews 10:14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

1 Corinthians 1:30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Positionally we are perfected because we stand on The Rock and are not hiding behind Him.

“Adam, where are you?”