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Short Answer: In context "you are to be perfect" means "you are to love as God loves: without partiality"
Justification
First, consider the immediate context:
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your ...
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In context, Jesus is telling his disciples their standard is not to be the letter of the law but the perfection of God. The statement appears at the end of a segment in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus specifically deals with his disciples relationship with the law (Matthew 5:17-48). The section begins
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish ...
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