41 Bible Verses about Maturity

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.

So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,

He must not be a recent convert, lest he be blinded with pride, and incur the doom of the devil.

And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.

But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

And Jesus was ever advancing in wisdom and in status and in favor with God and man.

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

Finally, brothers, farewell. Aim at perfection, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace; so shall the God of love and peace be with you.

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.

Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

Of its own accord the earth bears its crops; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

"And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection.

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

And this we will do, if God permit.

"You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!

So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

for the government of the fulness of the ages, that all things in heaven and earth are alike should be gathered up in Christ, as Head.

It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself."

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points.

but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, so as to instruct others, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.