47 Bible Verses about Maturity

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,

Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another,agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation--

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.

And this we will do if God permits.

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?

my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.