Perfection: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

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

So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.

The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.

Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.

I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD. …

Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.

For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Jesus told him, “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.”

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, …

…so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

…so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

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. …

Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form. …

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith.

…so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

You therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

…so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,

…because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

Now 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,

…equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him. …

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.