James 1:4
Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be mature, complete, and lacking in nothing.
Matthew 5:48
Be perfect (mature), even as your Father in heaven is perfect (mature). (Leviticus 19:2)
Luke 21:19
You will gain your lives because of your endurance.
Job 17:9
Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
Psalm 37:7
Surrender to Jehovah and wait patiently for him. Do not be preoccupied with an evildoer who succeeds in his way when he carries out his schemes.
Psalm 40:1
([Psalm of David]) I waited patiently for Jehovah and he bent down to me and heard my cry.
Proverbs 4:8
Love wisdom and she will exalt you. Embrace wisdom and she will honor you.
Habakkuk 2:3
The vision is yet for the appointed time. It moves quickly to the end. It will not lie! If it delays, wait for it for it will surely come. It will not be late!
Matthew 10:22
Men will hate you because of me. He who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 19:20
The man said to him: I have done all these things; what more is there?
Mark 10:21
Jesus lovingly looked at him and said: You lack one thing. Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.
Luke 8:15
The good ground represents the honest and good-hearted people. They hear the word, hold fast to it and produce forth fruit with patience.
Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard it he said to him, You lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.
John 17:23
I with them, and you with me, that they may accomplish complete unity. That way the world may know that you sent me and that you love them just as you love me.
1 Corinthians 2:6
How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing (are doomed to destruction)?
Galatians 6:9
Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.
Philippians 3:12-15
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained.
2 Timothy 3:17
Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.
Hebrews 13:21
make you perfect (mature) in every good thing. May you do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.
James 3:2
We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.
James 5:7-11
Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.
1 Peter 5:10
After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect, establish, and strengthen you.
2 Peter 1:9
For he who lacks these qualities is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
1 John 4:17-18
This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid (exposed to) this world.