Thematic Bible: Maturity how secured
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man I put away childish things.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one.