Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of the Messiah Jesus, sends you his greetings. He is always wrestling in his prayers for you, so that you may stand mature, completely convinced of the entire will of God.
Romans 15:30
Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and by the love that the Spirit produces, to join me in my struggle, earnestly praying to God for me
Colossians 1:7
You learned about this gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of the Messiah on your behalf.
Matthew 5:48
So be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
1 Corinthians 2:6
However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.
Colossians 1:28
It is he whom we proclaim as we admonish and wisely teach everyone, so that we may present everyone mature in the Messiah.
Luke 22:44
In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like large drops of blood falling on the ground.
John 12:26
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him."
Romans 15:14
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are filled with goodness and full of all the knowledge you need to be able to instruct each other.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.
Galatians 4:19
My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until the Messiah is formed in you.
Philippians 3:12-15
It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.
Colossians 1:9
For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Colossians 1:22
he has now reconciled by the death of his physical body, so that he may present you holy, blameless, and without fault before him.
Colossians 2:1-23
For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen me face to face.
Colossians 4:1-2
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
May the God of peace himself make you holy in every way. And may your whole being spirit, soul, and body remain blameless when our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, appears.
Hebrews 5:7
As a mortal man, he offered up prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his devotion to God.
Hebrews 5:14-1
But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
James 1:1
From: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. To: The twelve tribes in the Dispersion. Greetings.
James 5:16
Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
2 Peter 1:1
From: Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus, the Messiah. To: Those who have received faith that is as valuable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.
Jude 1:24
Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand joyful and faultless in his glorious presence,