2 Corinthians 13:9
I am glad to be consciously weak, if you are really strong. This is my continual prayer, the perfecting of your characters.
2 Corinthians 13:11
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.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
as night and day I continue to pray with deepest earnestness and keenest eagerness that I may see your faces and round out to completeness what is lacking in your faith?
1 Corinthians 4:10
For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.
2 Corinthians 7:1
So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!
2 Corinthians 12:5-10
On behalf of this man with such an experience I will boast, but on behalf of myself personally I will boast only about my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 13:7-8
But I am praying God that you may never do anything wrong, not to show that I am standing the test, but that you should continue doing right, though I should fail to stand the test.
Ephesians 4:12-13
for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,
Philippians 3:12-15
It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.
Colossians 1:28
We are proclaiming Him, warning everyone and teaching everyone with ample wisdom, in order to present to God everyone mature through union with Christ.
Colossians 4:12
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.
2 Timothy 3:17
so that the man of God may be perfectly fit, thoroughly equipped for every good enterprise.
Hebrews 6:1
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,
Hebrews 12:23
to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection,
Hebrews 13:21
perfectly fit you to do His will, He Himself, through Jesus Christ, accomplishing through you what is pleasing to Him. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 5:10
And God, the giver of every spiritual blessing, who through your union with Christ has called you to His eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong,