47 Bible Verses about Maturity

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.

But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

But I say the heir, for as long a time as he is a child, differs nothing from a bondman though he is lord of all.

As many therefore as are perfect should think this way. And if ye think anything differently, this also God will reveal to you.

Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Therefore having left the word of the primacy of Christ, let us be brought forward to perfection, not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.

And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and men.

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification.

Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

For the earth bears fruit spontaneously, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

And that which fell in the thorns, these are those who heard, and as they go they are choked by cares and wealth and pleasures of life, and do not bring to maturity.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head--the Christ--

for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.

For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.

And this we will do, if of course God will permit.

Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have know him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome evil.

and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he had strength with God.

so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.

And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,

from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and perseverance, character, and character, hope.

We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.

So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

for an administration of the fullness of the times. To gather together all things in the Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth,

Because of this his parents said, He has maturity, ask him.

But the man who is weak in the faith, do not receive for arguments of opinions.

I caused thee to multiply as that which grows in the field, and thou increased and grew great. And thou attained to excellent ornament, thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown. Yet thou were naked and bare.

Yet in an assembly I would rather speak five words with my intellect, so that I might also make others understand, than countless words in a tongue.