⁴⁸ Therefore ^(A)you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

^11 (A)Finally, brothers and sisters, ^[a]rejoice, ^(B)mend your ways, be comforted, ^(C)be like-minded, ^(D)live in peace; and ^(E)the God of love and peace will be with you.

^13 (A)You are to be blameless before the Lord your God.

⁵ but whoever ^(A)follows His word, in him the ^(B)love of God has truly been perfected. ^(C)By this we know that we are in Him:

^12 (A)No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains in us, and His ^(B)love is perfected in us.

²⁸ We proclaim Him, ^(A)admonishing every person and teaching every person ^[a]with all ^(B)wisdom, so that we may ^(C)present every person ^[b](D)complete in Christ.

¹⁴ For by one offering He has ^(A)perfected ^(B)for all time those who are ^[a]sanctified.

^21 (A)equip you in every good thing to do His will, ^(B)working in us that ^(C)which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, ^(D)to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

The Danger of Falling Away

6 Therefore ^(A)leaving ^(B)the ^[a]elementary teaching about the ^[b]Christ, let us press on to ^[c](C)maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from ^(D)dead works and of faith toward God,