Thematic Bible: Maturity how secured
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Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
By speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all things to him. For he, Christ, is the head.
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until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown (mature) man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
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Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brothers, do not be like children in understanding. When it comes to evil be innocent children but in your thinking be mature adults.
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Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things.
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Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.
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Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
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