Philippians 1:10

Prayer For Spiritual Maturity

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ, ¹⁰ so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ, ¹¹ being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ-- to the glory and praise of God.

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1 Thessalonians 3:13

Thus He will build up your characters, so that you will be faultlessly holy in the presence of our God and Father at the Coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy ones.

Romans 12:2

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

1 Corinthians 1:8

who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:6

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And may God Himself who gives peace, make you entirely holy; and may your spirits, souls and bodies be preserved complete and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 24:16

This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man.

Romans 2:18

and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--being a man who receives instruction from the Law--

Matthew 16:23

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Adversary; you are a hindrance to me, because your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."

Matthew 18:6-7

But whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 26:33

"All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will."

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

John 3:20

For every wrongdoer hates the light, and does not come to the light, for fear his actions should be exposed and condemned.

Romans 7:16

But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,

Romans 7:22

For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;

Romans 8:7

Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

Romans 12:9

Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.

Romans 14:20-21

Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others.

Romans 16:17

But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, in defiance of the instruction which you have received; and habitually to shun them.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.

2 Corinthians 2:17

We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.

2 Corinthians 6:3

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

2 Corinthians 8:8

I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.

Galatians 5:11

As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!

Ephesians 4:15

But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.

Ephesians 5:10

and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:27

that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished.

Ephesians 6:24

May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with perfect sincerity.

Philippians 1:16

These latter preach Him from love to me, knowing that I am here for the defence of the Good News;

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test all such, and retain hold of the good.

Hebrews 5:12-14

For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false teachers have gone out into the world.

Revelation 2:2

I know your doings and your toil and patient suffering. And I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, but have put to the test those who say that they themselves are Apostles but are not, and you have found them to be liars.