18 Bible Verses about Spiritual Maturity

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our humble body, and make it like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself.

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, of baptisms taught, and the imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of the eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits.

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.

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,

but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God continues in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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, that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

But you have not so learned Christ, if you have indeed heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus, that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,read more.
and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

As therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, founded and built up in him, and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings, and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe; but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

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, of baptisms taught, and the imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of the eternal judgment.

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings, as new born babes desire earnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to salvation, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on your guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall from your steadfastness, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever.