Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.
Romans 15:30
Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,
Colossians 1:7
as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in your behalf,
Matthew 5:48
"You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
1 Corinthians 2:6
Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.
Colossians 1:28
Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.
Luke 22:44
(And being in agony he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as if it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.)
John 12:26
If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.
Romans 15:14
And I myself also am confident regarding you, my brothers, that you yourselves are already full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and well able to give advice to one another.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers, farewell. Aim at perfection, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace; so shall the God of love and peace be with you.
Galatians 1:10
Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.
Galatians 4:19
O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!
Philippians 3:12-15
I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
Colossians 1:9
For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;
Colossians 1:22
he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.
Colossians 2:1-23
For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.
Colossians 4:1-2
Masters, deal justly and fairly with your slaves, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
May the God of peace consecrate you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept altogether faultless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 5:7
In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.
Hebrews 5:14-1
But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.
James 1:1
James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad.
James 5:16
So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:24
Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant,