Bible Verses about “maturation”

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

“knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.”

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,”

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

“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.”

“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;”

“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;”

“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, 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;”

“from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.”

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

“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.”