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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 18:13 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
De 18:13 |
King James |
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Perfect - As in Gen 17:1; Job 1:1; Mat 5:48. The sense is that Israel was to keep the worship of the true God wholly uncontaminated by idolatrous pollutions. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Perfect - Sincerely and wholly his, seeking him and cleaving to him and to his word alone, and therefore abhorring all commerce and conversations with devils. |
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.