40 Bible Verses about Perfection, Human

With it we bless the Lord, even the Father; and with it we scold the people, who have been made after the image of God:

for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh unto God.

Then indeed if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for unto it the people have been tithed, what need is there still that another priest shall rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the law having the shadow of good things to come, not the real image of the things, annually with the same sacrifices which they offer continually, is by no means able to make perfect those coming to it:

in the body of his cross through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreprovable before him,

in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless.

For by one offering he has forever perfected the sanctified.

God having reserved something better for us, that they might not be made perfect apart from us.

to the whole company, and to the church of the first-born, who have been written in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of justified people who have been made perfect,

But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

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

Not that I already received it, or have already been made perfect: but I persevere, if I may receive that for which I have indeed been received by Christ Jesus.

For we rejoice when we may be weak, and you may be strong: we are praying for even this, your perfection. Therefore being absent I write these things, in order that being present, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect; be of good comfort; think the same thing, live in peace: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

until we may all come into the unity of the faith, and of the perfect knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, into the measure of the likeness of the fulness of Christ:

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be carried to perfection; not again laying the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Therefore ye shall be perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.

Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

in order that you may distinguish those things which differ; that you may be pure and without offence in the day of Christ;

in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless unto him in peace:

that you keep the commandment, spotless and pure, unto the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

but whosoever shall keep his word, truly the divine love of God has been made perfect in him. In this we know that we are in him.

For we all fail in many things; if any one fails not in word, the same is a perfect man, able even to bridle the whole body.

I in them, and thou in me, in order that they may be perfected into one; in order that the world may know that thou didst send me, and didst love them, as thou didst love me.

But I exhort you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you may all speak the same things, and that there may be no schisms among you; but you may be perfected in the same mind and in the same disposition.

and in all these things put on divine love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

The one having the bride is the Bridegroom: but the friend of the Bridegroom is the one standing and hearing him, rejoiceth with joy on account of the Bridegroom: This, my joy has been made complete.

Until now you have asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, in order that your joy may be full.

And we write the same things to you, in order that our joy may be full.

And the peace of God, that passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

For we know in part, and prophesy in part: but when the perfect may come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was an infant, I talked like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant: when I became a man, I put away the things of the infant.read more.
For we now see through a mirror in an enigma; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know perfectly even as I am perfectly known.

But I am indeed persuaded, my brethren, concerning you, that you are also full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one another.

in order that their hearts may be comforted, being knitted together in divine love, and in all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the perfect knowledge of the mystery of God, of Christ,

in reference to zeal, persecuting the church, according to righteousness which was in the law being blameless.