47 Bible Verses about Maturity

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,

As many, therefore, as are perfect -- let us think this, and if in anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God 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 Jesus,

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

Salute you doth Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

'And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.

I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

for every one who is partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,

and this we will do, if God may permit,

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who is in the heavens is perfect.

I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.

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

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

We have a little sister, and breasts she hath not, What do we do for our sister, In the day that it is told of her?

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;

because of this his parents said -- 'He is of age, ask him.'

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;

A myriad -- as the shoot of the field I have made thee, And thou art multiplied, and art great, And comest in with an excellent adornment, Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown -- And thou, naked and bare!

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.