40 Bible Verses about Perfection, Human

With it bless we the Lord and Father, and with it curse we men made in the likeness of God.

for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

by the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blame and without fault before him,

that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect,

But let patience have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

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

For I am zealous for you with a godly zeal, for I joined you, a chaste virgin, to one husband, to present to Christ;

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; and we desire this, your perfection. For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that I may not use sharpness when present, with the power which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down. Finally, brothers, rejoice, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God,

Be therefore perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,

that you keep the charge without spot, without blame, till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

For in many things we all offend; if one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection also the whole body.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.

and in addition to all these [put on] love, which is the bond of perfection.

I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be completed.

He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice; this my joy, therefore, is fully attained.

Till now you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

And these things we write to you, that your joy may be complete.

And may the peace of God which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

And we know in part and we prophesy in part; when the perfect has come, that which is in part shall pass away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man I put away childish things.read more.
For now we see by a mirror darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully as I also am known.

And I am persuaded, my brothers, even I myself, concerning you, that you are full of kindness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another;

that your hearts may be comforted, being united in love and [raised] to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God,

as to zeal persecuting the church, as to righteousness by the law being blameless.