'Mature' in the Bible
So they circulated a proclamation throughout their towns and in Jerusalem. It said, "Go out to the hill country and bring back olive branches, wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of mature trees, in order to set up tents, as has been written."
For before the harvest, when the season of budding is over, and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes, he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives, clearing away the spreading branches as he lops them off.
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
The ones that fell among the thorn bushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn't mature.
However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.
until all of us are united in the faith and in the full knowledge of God's Son, and until we attain mature adulthood and the full standard of development in the Messiah.
Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will continue to live and be with all of you, so you will mature in the faith and know joy in it.
Therefore, those of us who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will show you how to think.
It is he whom we proclaim as we admonish and wisely teach everyone, so that we may present everyone mature in the Messiah.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of the Messiah Jesus, sends you his greetings. He is always wrestling in his prayers for you, so that you may stand mature, completely convinced of the entire will of God.
But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
But you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
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- Adolescent (2 instances)
- Age (470 instances)
- Cast (676 instances)
- Elaborate (8 instances)
- Grow (214 instances)
- Mature (22 instances)
- Matured (3 instances)
- Ripe (38 instances)
- Ripen (4 instances)