Thematic Bible: Maturity how secured
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man??o the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I wrote to you, fathers, because ye have known Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have conquered the evil one.