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We often try to complicate the simplicity of Jesus Christ and the Good News that He came to bring. The Bible, regardless of what translation we use has the same central message: Jesus Christ. Jesus said to a crowd of people, “You search the scriptures looking for eternal life, but the scriptures point directly to Me.” Again, Jesus said “the will of the Father is to believe in the Son in whom He sent.” Yet, we say we believe in Jesus BUT we also have to do something. That is not part of the Word of God. There is nothing that can be added to what Jesus has already done to secure our salvation and there isn’t anything we can take away from it. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross is perfect. Now, when Jesus says to be perfect just as our Heavenly Father (which seems impossible), but it is to simply believe on the one whom He sent and He will make us perfect. We cannot make ourselves perfect. It is not through our works but it is through our faith in Jesus Christ and Him alone.

John 3:16

For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 16:13-23

13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
14 “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.”
15 Then he asked them, ”But who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being. 18 Now I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. 19And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.”
21 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
22 Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!”
23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

Hebrews 2:14-15

14 Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. 15 Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4

1 Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. 2 It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.
3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. 4 He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.

Matthew 6:33

Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless.

1 Corinthians 15:19

And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.