60 Bible Verses about Perfection, Human

And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God he made him,

Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says lord LORD: Thou seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold. The workmanship of t Thou were the anointed cherub who covers. And I set thee, [so that] thou were upon the holy mountain of God. Thou have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.read more.
Thou were perfect in thy ways from the day that thou were created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field.read more.
In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Thou were perfect in thy ways from the day that thou were created, till unrighteousness was found in thee. By the abundance of thy commerce they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou have sinned. Therefore I have cast thee out of the mountain of God as profane, and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of t Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty. Thou have corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness. I have cast thee to the ground. I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

Thou shall be perfect with LORD thy God.

And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

Who shall ascend into the hill of LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

If indeed therefore perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had received the law), what further need is there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated

For the law having a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the same substance of the events, with the same sacrifices that are offered continually each year, they are never able to fully perfect those who are approaching.

in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblemished and unblameable before him.

And some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

For by one offering he has fully perfected forever those being sanctified.

God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.

to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification. Because of this I write these things while absent, so that I may not act harshly when present, according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down. Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a standard of stature of the fullness of the Christ.

Therefore having left the word of the primacy of Christ, let us be brought forward to perfection, not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

that thou keep the commandment, without spot, blameless, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this man the love of God is fully perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be fully perfected in one, and so that the world may know that thou sent me, and loved them, just as thou loved me.

Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.

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

These things I have spoken to you that my joy may dwell in you, and your joy may be full.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

And we write these things to you, so that our joy may be made full.

Thou will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee], because he trusts in thee.

Great peace have those who love thy law, and they have no occasion of stumbling.

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

But we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, then what is in part will be abolished. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I abolished the childish things.read more.
For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

And I also myself am persuaded about you, my brothers, that ye yourselves are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ.

Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty; from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight. And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a woman of a fair countenance.

(For truly my words are not false.) He who is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

They search out iniquities, [saying,] We have accomplished a diligent search. And the inward part of man and the heart [are] deep.

I have seen an end of all perfection. Thy commandment is exceedingly broad.

and say to Tyre, O thou that dwells at the entry of the sea, that is the merchant of the peoples to many isles, thus says lord LORD: Thou, O Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty. Thy borders are in the heart of the seas. Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.