47 Bible Verses about Maturity

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God -- a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ's full stature.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

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

Therefore let those of us who are "perfect" embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

I said to myself, 'Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.'

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

And this is what we intend to do, if God permits.

So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.

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

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work in the tent of meeting.

with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

The Beloved's Brothers: We have a little sister, and as yet she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?

My children -- I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ -- the things in heaven and the things on earth.

For this reason his parents said, "He is a mature adult, ask him.")

Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.