42 Bible Verses about Maturity

until we all attain to unity in faith and to perfect knowledge of the Son of God, namely, to a mature manhood and to a perfect measure of Christ's moral stature;

But solid food belongs to full-grown men who on account of constant use have their faculties trained to distinguish good and evil.

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,

So let us all who are mature have this attitude. If you have a different attitude, God will make it clear to you.

We are proclaiming Him, warning everyone and teaching everyone with ample wisdom, in order to present to God everyone mature through union with Christ.

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

He must not be a new convert, or else becoming conceited he may incur the doom the devil met.

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

Yet, when among mature believers we do set forth a wisdom, but a wisdom that does not belong to this world or to the leaders of this world who are passing away;

but you must let your endurance come to its perfect product, so that you may be fully developed and perfectly equipped, without any defects.

Meanwhile Jesus grew constantly in wisdom and in body, and in favor with God and man.

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always earnestly pleading for you in his prayers that you may stand fast as men mature and of firm convictions in everything required by the will of God.

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

For we all make many a slip. If anyone never slips in speech, he is a man of maturity; he can control his whole body too.

Finally, brothers, goodbye! Practice the perfecting of your characters, keep listening to my appeals, continue thinking in harmony and living in peace, and the loving, peace-giving God will be with you.

and like new-born babies thirst for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to final salvation,

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you could not take it. Why, you cannot take it even now,

for you surely know that what is genuine in your faith produces the patient mind that endures;

I am glad to be consciously weak, if you are really strong. This is my continual prayer, the perfecting of your characters.

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

The ground of itself produces, first the stalk, then the head; at last there is the matured grain of wheat in the head.

And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit.

But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.

for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,

For everyone who uses milk alone is inexperienced in the message of right-doing; he is only an infant.

And we will progress, if God permits.

So you, my followers, ought 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 conquered the evil one.

And over all these qualities put on love, which is the tie of perfection that binds us together.

so that you may not grow careless, but may follow the example of those who through their faith and patient endurance are now possessors of the blessings promised.

And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

and endurance, tested character, and tested character, hope,

O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

so that, at the coming of the climax of the ages, everything in heaven and on earth should be unified through Christ,

This is why his parents said, "He is of age, ask him."

Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views.

But in the public congregation I would rather speak five words with my mind in action, in order to instruct the people too, than ten thousand words in ecstasy.