Philippians 1:10

Prayer For Spiritual Maturity

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence, ¹⁰ that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day, ¹¹ being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.

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1 Thessalonians 3:13

in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 1:8

who shall also confirm you to the end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:6

having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 24:16

For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.

Romans 2:18

and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

Genesis 20:5

Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and in the innocency of my hands have I done this.

Joshua 24:14

And now fear Jehovah and serve him in perfectness and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve Jehovah.

Job 12:11

Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?

Job 34:3

For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.

Isaiah 7:15-16

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.

Amos 5:14-15

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.

Micah 3:2

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Matthew 16:23

But turning round, he said to Peter, Get away behind me, Satan; thou art an offence to me, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.

Matthew 18:6-7

But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 26:33

And Peter answering said to him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.

John 3:20

For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

Romans 7:16

But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

Romans 8:7

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

Romans 12:9

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

Romans 14:20-21

For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.

Romans 16:17

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 6:3

giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;

2 Corinthians 8:8

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Galatians 5:11

But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

Ephesians 4:15

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

Ephesians 5:10

proving what is agreeable to the Lord;

Ephesians 5:27

that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

Ephesians 6:24

Grace with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption.

Philippians 1:16

These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but prove all things, hold fast the right;

Hebrews 5:12-14

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works and thy labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars;