16 Bible Verses about perfectionism
Most Relevant Verses
I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.
The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.
You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.