For Accuracy, The Word "Perfect" Should Be Replaced With "Complete" In All English Bibles

It is widely assumed that fastidiousness and scrupulosity are prerequisites of perfection.

But it is not about precision.

Perfection is about being complete, entire, whole.

Alan: Biblical references to "perfection" are misleading as are most English references to "perfection." 

Since the word "perfect" has been corrupted by connotations of "mathematical," "symmetrical" or unfailing precision, all biblical uses of the word "perfect" would be more accurately translated as "complete." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=perfect

Until World War I, biologists used the words "perfect" and "imperfect" to refer to developmental stages of creatures that reproduced sexually. 

The "perfect" form of a sexual creature had completed its sexual development and was now able to reproduce. 

The imperfect form whose sexual development was not yet complete remained unable to reproduce.

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

"Is Perfectionism A Curse? Paul Ryan Tells The Truth"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-ryan-tells-truth.html

Religion and Perfectionism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/religion-and-perfectionism.html

Perfectionism As A Crippling Imperfection

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/perfectionism-as-crippling-imperfection.html

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 

The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 

1 John 4:18

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A18&version=MSG

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." 

Matthew 5:48, King James Version

Alan: Complete contextualization of this well-known passage exhorting perfection demonstrates that "completeness" is God's intended meaning and not any sort of "precision."

Here are links to Matthew's complete context, the first from the King James Version, the second from The Message translation, published in 1993, which I regularly find most insightful. 

Matthew 5:38-48

King James Version

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+5%3A+38-48&version=KJV

Matthew 5:38-48

The Message
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+5&version=MSG

• A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression."
• Screwtape Letter XXVI

          C.S. Lewis