42 Bible Verses about Maturity

until we all attain unity in faith, and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and reach mature manhood, and that full measure of development found in Christ.

But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.

I mean this: As long as the heir is a minor, he is no better than a slave, although he is the owner of all the property,

Let as many of us therefore as are mature have this attitude. If you have any different attitude, God will make this clear to you.

And in spreading the news of him, we warn everyone and teach everyone all our wisdom, in order to bring everyone to Christian perfection.

Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,

He must not be a new convert, or he may grow conceited and incur criticism from slanderous people.

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

and steadfastness must have full play, so that you may be fully and perfectly developed without any defects.

As Jesus grew older he gained in wisdom and won the approval of God and men.

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

For we all make many mistakes. Anyone who never makes a mistake in what he says has a character that is fully developed and is able to control his whole body as well.

Now brothers, goodbye! Be what you ought to be, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and God the source of love and peace will be with you.

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now,

for you know that the testing of your faith leads to steadfastness,

I am glad to be weak, if you are strong! That is what I pray for??he perfecting of your characters.

Then desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is mature, it brings forth death.

The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

And what falls among the thorns means those who listen and pass on, and the worries and wealth and pleasures of life stifle them and they yield nothing.

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ,

For anyone who is limited to milk is unacquainted with Christian teaching, for he is only an infant.

And we will advance if God permits it.

So you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

and endurance, character, and character, hope,

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

That was why his parents said, "He is grown up; you must ask him."

Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views.

But in public worship I would rather say five words with my understanding so as to instruct others also than ten thousand words in an ecstasy.