Thematic Bible: Maturity how secured
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,
until all of us are united in the faith and in the full knowledge of God's Son, and until we attain mature adulthood and the full standard of development in the Messiah.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong and because God's word remains in you and you have overcome the evil one.