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Job 1:1 — There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
Psalms 37:37 — Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright; For the man of peace will have a posterity.
Daniel 10:12 — Then he said to me, "Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding {this} and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.
Matthew 5:48 — ~"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Luke 8:11-15 — "Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.
~"Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.
~"Those on the rocky {soil are} those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no {firm} root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.
~"The {seed} which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of {this} life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
~"But the {seed} in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.
Luke 14:28-30 — ~"For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
~"Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
saying, `This man began to build and was not able to finish.'
John 17:4 — ~"I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
Acts 20:24 — ~"But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 2:6-7 — Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden {wisdom} which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
1 Corinthians 3:1-3 — And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able {to receive it.} Indeed, even now you are not yet able,
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
1 Corinthians 4:16 — Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 — Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but {only} one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then {do it} to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;
but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10:32-33 — Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;
just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the {profit} of the many, so that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 11:1 — Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:11 — When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
1 Corinthians 14:20 — Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
2 Corinthians 8:5-7 — and {this,} not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.
But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the (Lit {love from us in you;} one early ms reads {your love for us}) love we inspired in you, {see} that you abound in this gracious work also.
2 Corinthians 8:10-11 — I give {my} opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do {this,} but also to desire {to do it.}
But now finish doing it also, so that just as {there was} the readiness to desire it, so {there may be} also the completion of it by your ability.
2 Corinthians 13:9 — For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.
2 Corinthians 13:11 — Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Ephesians 4:11-15 — And He gave some {as} apostles, and some {as} prophets, and some {as} evangelists, and some {as} pastors and teachers,
for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all {aspects} into Him who is the head, {even} Christ,
Philippians 1:6 — {For I am} confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12-15 — Not that I have already obtained {it} or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of {it} yet; but one thing {I do:} forgetting what {lies} behind and reaching forward to what {lies} ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;
Philippians 3:16-17 — however, let us keep living by that same { standard} to which we have attained.
Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
Colossians 1:9-12 — For this reason also, since the day we heard {of it,} we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please {Him} in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
Colossians 1:28 — We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.
Colossians 2:9-10 — For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
Colossians 4:12 — Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
1 Thessalonians 1:6 — You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit,
2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 — For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,
nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we {kept} working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;
not because we do not have the right {to this,} but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 — All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 4:7 — I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
Hebrews 5:12-14 — For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
For everyone who partakes {only} of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Hebrews 6:1-2 — Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
Hebrews 6:11-12 — And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,
so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 12:1-3 — Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
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 consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
James 1:2-4 — Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
And let endurance have {its} perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 3:2 — For we all stumble in many {ways.} If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
1 Peter 2:1-3 — Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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