41 Bible Verses about Maturity

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man??o the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;

but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.

But I say that, so long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a slave, though he is lord of all;

Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;

Whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

not a novice; lest, being puffed up, he fall into condemnation of the Devil.

For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

Epaphras, who is from among you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, always striving in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone stumbles not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to restrain also the whole body.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,

I fed you with milk, and not solid food; for not yet were ye able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able;

knowing that the proving of your faith establishes patience.

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong; this also we pray for??our perfection.

Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

The earth of itself bears fruit; first the blade, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

"And that which fell among the thorns, these are those who heard; and, going forth, they are choked with anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, and bear no fruit to perfection.

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;

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

for every one who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit.

Ye, therefore, shall be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect."

I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have conquered the evil one.

and over all these put on love, which is the uniting-bond of perfectness.

that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises.

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations; knowing that tribulation works out patience;

I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and patience, approval; and approval, hope;

my little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be formed in you!

that we may no longer be babes, billow-tossed, and carried about with every wind of teaching, in the sleight of men, in the craftiness suited to the artifice of error;

for a dispensation of the fulness of the seasons, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in Him,

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

But him that is weak in the faith receive ye, yet not for decisions of scruples.

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