18 Bible Verses about Spiritual Maturity

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

For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself.

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, Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God even permit.

When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child.

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

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

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 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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

And ye have not so learned Christ; If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus: For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;read more.
And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him: Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds; And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:

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. For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child. And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

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, Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies, As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it: If ye have tasted that the Lord is good.

You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability. And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.