Bible Verses about “christian maturity”

“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.”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

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

“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”

“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”

“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”

“Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.”

“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:”

“He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;”

“for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;”

“Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.”

“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;”

“that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;”

“as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,”

“This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.”

“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 everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.”

“Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.”

“But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."”

“that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;”

“strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;”

“Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”

“For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

“If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.”

“each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.”

“For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,”

“If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.”

“But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;”

“giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;”

“But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.”

“For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.”

“For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.”

“for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?”

“For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.”

“I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.”

“So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.”

“but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.”

“Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.”

“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.”

“That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.”

“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.”

“I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,”

“According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.”

“Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.”

“For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?”

“Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?”

“And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."”

“My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--”

“whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,”

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."”