Perfectionism

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — 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. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

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

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

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.

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

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:

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.

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

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.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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.

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

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?

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,

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

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

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.

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,

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

Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

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.

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.

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

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. — read the full passage →

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.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

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

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

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, — 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 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.

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,

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;

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

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

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

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

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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,

He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

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

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.

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

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

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

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.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build, — read the full passage →

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, — read the full passage →

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

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. — read the full passage →

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. — read the full passage →

and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. — read the full passage →

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

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

But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.” — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” — read the full passage →

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. — read the full passage →

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe. — 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. — read the full passage →

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? — read the full passage →

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →