Perfect

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

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.

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

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.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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.

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

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

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

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

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.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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

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

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. — read the full passage →

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

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

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.”

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

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

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.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

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.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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

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

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

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

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. — read the full passage →

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.

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

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

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.

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.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

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

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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

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

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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,

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;

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

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.

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If you love me, keep my commandments. — read the full passage →

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

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.

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,

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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 →

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.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.