Philippians 1:9

Prayer For Spiritual Maturity

⁸ For God beareth me record how greatly I long after you all from the very heart-root in Jesus Christ. ⁹ And this I pray, that your love may increase more and more in knowledge, and in all feeling, ¹⁰ that ye might accept things most excellent, that ye might be pure and such as should hurt no man's conscience, until the day of Christ;

Pray for

1 Thessalonians 3:12

and the Lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you,

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard of it have not ceased praying for you, and desiring that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 3:10

and the new put on; which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that made him:

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We are bound to thank God always for you brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and every one of you swimmeth in love toward another between yourselves,

1 Peter 1:22

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

2 Peter 1:5-6

And hereunto, give all diligence: In your faith, minister virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now therefore, as ye are rich in all parts, in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all ferventness, and in love, which ye have to us: even so see that ye be plenteous in this benevolence.

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you. For ye are taught of God to love one another.

Job 17:9

The righteous also will keep his way, and he that hath clean hands, will ever be stronger and stronger.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in wit. Howbeit, as concerning maliciousness be children: but in wit be perfect.

Ephesians 5:17

Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Philippians 3:15-16

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus wise minded: and if ye be otherwise minded, I pray God open even this unto you.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.

Hebrews 5:14

But strong meat belongeth to them that are perfect, which through custom have their wits exercised, to judge both good and evil also.

2 Peter 3:18

but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord, and saviour Jesus Christ. To whom be glory both now and forever. Amen. {Here ends the Second General Epistle of Peter}

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

Matthew 13:31-33

Another parable he put forth unto them saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man taketh and soweth in his field, which is the least of all seeds.