All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
- KJV Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
- NKJV Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.
- NASB Therefore, all who are mature, let’s have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that to you as well;
- NLT Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you.
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Quick answer
The spiritually mature should adopt this same forward-pressing mindset, trusting God to correct any wrong thinking. Maturity includes teachableness.
Overview
Paul calls the 'perfect,' better rendered 'mature,' to share his outlook of humble striving. Notably, true maturity does not mean having every matter settled; where believers differ, Paul trusts God himself to reveal the truth in time. This breathes both confidence in essentials and patience over secondary differences, all under God's gracious instruction.
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Cross-references · 18
- John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
- Gal 5:10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
- Prov 2:3–6if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
- 1 Cor 2:6Among 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.
- Jas 1:4–5Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
- Col 4:12Epaphras, 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.
- 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
- Matt 5:48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Phil 3:12–14Not 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.
- Isa 35:8And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
- Col 1:28We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
- Heb 5:14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
- Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
- Luke 11:13So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
- Rom 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
- 2 Tim 3:17so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
- Prov 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
- 1 Jn 2:5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
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