Perfection
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Perfection’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 25–48 of 94 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart. Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
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Psalms 119:6 OT
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
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I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
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For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
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Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.
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Matthew 5:6 NT
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
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Matthew 5:48 NT
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
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Luke 6:40 NT
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
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We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.
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Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
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Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
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He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity…
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so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
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that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
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Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do:…
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You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,
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yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
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We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
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For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body…
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Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
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Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
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night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?