God Made Us Perfect

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

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

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; — read the full passage →

to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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.”

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

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.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

We love him, because he first loved us.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,