Perfection

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 18:13 OT

  You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

• Job 9:20 OT

  Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

• Philippians 3:12 NT

  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.

• Proverbs 4:18 OT

  But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

• Ephesians 4:12 NT

  for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

• Colossians 1:28 NT

  We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

• 2 Corinthians 7:1 NT

  Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

• 2 Corinthians 13:11 NT

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 6:36 OT

  “If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

• Psalms 119:96 OT

  I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

• James 1:25 NT

  But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

• 2 Timothy 3:16 NT

  Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

• 2 Timothy 3:17 NT

  that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

• Colossians 3:14 NT

  Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

• James 1:4 NT

  Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

• Hebrews 13:20 NT

  Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

• Hebrews 13:21 NT

  make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

• 1 Peter 5:10 NT

  But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

• John 17:23 NT

  I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

• Ephesians 4:13 NT

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

• Psalms 37:37 OT

  Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

• Proverbs 2:21 OT

  For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.