Thematic Bible: Maturity how secured
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:
until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.