PERFECTION
Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
GEN 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among
the people of his time, and he walked with God.
17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and
said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.
NUM 23:21 "No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed in Israel.
The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.
DEU 5:32 So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do
not turn aside to the right or to the left.
18:13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
JOS 23:6 "Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the
Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the
left.
1KI 8:61 But your hearts must be fully committed to the LORD our God, to
live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time."
11:4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and
his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David
his father had been.
6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD
completely, as David his father had done.
15:14 Although he did not remove the high places, Asa's heart was fully
committed to the LORD all his life.
1CH 28:9 "And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and
serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD
searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If
you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will
reject you forever.
29:19 And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your
commands, requirements and decrees and to do everything to build the
palatial structure for which I have provided."
2CH 6:36 "When they sin against you--for there is no one who does not sin-
-and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes
them captive to a land far away or near;
JOB 1:1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man
was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
9:20 Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were
blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.
21 "Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my
own life.
PSA 18:32 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.
37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; his feet do not slip.
101:2 I will be careful to lead a blameless life--when will you come to
me? I will walk in my house with blameless heart.
106:3 Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is
right.
119:1 Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the
law of the LORD.
2 Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their
heart.
3 They do nothing wrong; they walk in his ways.
6 Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands.
96 To all perfection I see a limit; but your commands are boundless.
PRO 2:21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will
remain in it;
ECC 7:20 There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and
never sins.
MAT 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for
they will be filled.
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
19:21 Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your
possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Then come, follow me."
LUK 1:6 Both of them were upright in the sight of God, observing all the
Lord's commandments and regulations blamelessly.
6:40 A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained
will be like his teacher.
JOH 1:47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a
true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false."
1CO 2:6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but
not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to
nothing.
2CO 7:1 Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify
ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting
holiness out of reverence for God.
13:9 We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer
is for your perfection.
11 Finally, brothers, good-by. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be
of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
EPH 4:11 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some
to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
12 to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of
Christ may be built up
13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son
of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of
Christ.
PHI 1:10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure
and blameless until the day of Christ,
2:15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without
fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars
in the universe
3:12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made
perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took
hold of me.
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But
one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is
ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me
heavenward in Christ Jesus.
15 All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on
some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
COL 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds
because of your evil behavior.
22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death
to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation-
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28 We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so
that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
2:9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
10 and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every
power and authority.
11 In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful
nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the
circumcision done by Christ,
3:14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together
in perfect unity.
4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends
greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand
firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.
1TH 3:10 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again
and supply what is lacking in your faith.
13 May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in
the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his
holy ones.
2TI 2:1 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
3:17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good
work.
HEB 6:1 Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and
go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts
that lead to death, and of faith in God,
10:14 because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are
being made holy.
13:20 May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant
brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the
sheep,
21 equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in
us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever
and ever. Amen.
JAM 1:4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and
complete, not lacking anything.
25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,
and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--
he will be blessed in what he does.
3:2 We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he
says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.
1PE 5:10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in
Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you
and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1JO 2:5 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in
him. This is how we know we are in him:
3:6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin
has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is
right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been
sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to
destroy the devil's work.
9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed
remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of
the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God;
nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us
and his love is made complete in us.
5:18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who
was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.
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