47 Bible Verses about Maturity

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;

but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

As many therefore as are perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.

whom we announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men.

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.

For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

The earth bears fruit of itself, first the blade, then an ear, then full corn in the ear.

But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who having heard go away and are choked under cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;

For every one that partakes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

and this will we do if God permit.

Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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.

And to all these add love, which is the bond of perfectness.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he wrestled with God.

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? --

my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

for the administration of the fulness of times; to head up all things in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him,

On this account his parents said, He is of age: ask him.

Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.

I caused thee to multiply, as the bud of the field; and thou didst increase and grow great, and thou camest to fulness of beauty; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: but thou wast naked and bare.

but in the assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.