40 Bible Verses about Maturity

until we may all come into the unity of the faith, and of the perfect knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, into the measure of the likeness of the fulness of Christ:

but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.

Therefore let us, so many as are perfect, think the same thing: and if you think otherwise in any respect, God will also reveal this to you:

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be carried to perfection; not again laying the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil.

For indeed you, who ought to be teachers so far as time is concerned, have need that some one again teach you what are the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have need of milk, not solid food.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought:

But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

And Jesus continued to grow in wisdom and stature and favor with God and men.

Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you.

Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

For we all fail in many things; if any one fails not in word, the same is a perfect man, able even to bridle the whole body.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect; be of good comfort; think the same thing, live in peace: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

like newly born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, in order that you may grow thereby unto salvation:

I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able. But ye are not now yet able:

Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance.

For we rejoice when we may be weak, and you may be strong: we are praying for even this, your perfection.

Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death.

The earth spontaneously brings forth fruit; first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.

And that which falleth among thorns, there are those who hear, and going forward, by the cares and riches and pleasures are choked out, and bring forth no fruit to perfection.

but speaking the truth in divine love, let its grow up in him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

unto the perfection of the saints, in the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ:

For every one partaking of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe;

And we will do this, if God may permit.

Therefore ye shall be perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

and in all these things put on divine love, which is the bond of perfection.

in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises.

And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance;

but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and endurance, approval; and approval, hope:

in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion;

in the economy of the fulness of the times, to rehead all things in Christ, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth; in him,

Therefore his parents said that, He has majority, ask him.

But receive to yourselves him who is weak in faith, not into disputations of doubtful matters.

but I would rather speak five words in the church with my understanding, so that I may indeed teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.