Bible Verses about “maturity”

“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.”

“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”

“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.”

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”

“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.”

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.”

“for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”

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

“But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.”

“But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.”

“Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.”

“Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;”

“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.”

“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”

“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”

“and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:”

“He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

“For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.”

“Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.”

“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;”

“Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.”

“Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”

“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;”

“Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”

“and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.”

“But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;”

“For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.”

“James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.”

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

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

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

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

“of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.”

“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,”

“This will we do, if God permits.”