47 Bible Verses about Maturity

Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ.

And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

And I say, for as long time as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a servant, being lord of all;

Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you.

Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ jesus:

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser.

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:

And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age, and in grace with God and man.

Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.

Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.

As to the rest, brethren, rejoice. Be adjusted, be comforted, think the same, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall with you.

As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able.

Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.

For we rejoice when we be weak, and ye be able: and this also we pray, your restoration.

So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death.

For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear.

And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity.

I said, days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make known wisdom.

And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:

For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:

For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child.

And this will we do, if God even permit.

Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected.

I wrote to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, for ye are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and ye have conquered the evil.

And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion.

In the belly he circumvented his brother, and by his strength he was a leader with God.

That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.

And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;

From the son of thirty years and above, and to the son of fifty years, all coming in to war to do the works of the tent of appointment

I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope.

A little sister to us, and no breasts to her: what shall we do for our sister in the day it shall be spoken for her?

My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,

That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;

For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:

Therefore said his parents, That he has age; ask him.

Him being weak in faith receive ye, not to judgments of conversations.

I gave thee ten thousand as the sprout of the field, and thou shalt be multiplied and enlarged, and come into ornament of ornaments: the breasts were set, and thy hair sprang up, and thou wert naked and nakedness.

But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound. in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.