Thematic Bible: Maturity how secured
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,
till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ ??14 instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One.